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Re:From an Airtable to $9.2k in Side Income by nicoffeine on Sunday October 11, 2020 @12:40PM (#24747029)
For most of the modern economy, it's marketing treadmills all the way down.

The primary idea -- that a product will make the consumer's life better -- is what is being repackaged and resold over and over again. In most cases, consumers are buying the quick shot of dopamine they get when they swipe their credit card, not the product itself.

Re:From an Airtable to $9.2k in Side Income by FPGAhacker on Sunday October 11, 2020 @02:48PM (#24748044)
> The primary idea -- that a product will make the consumer's life better -- is what is being repackaged and resold over and over again.

I wish.

What’s being resold and repackaged is telling other people how to make money by telling other people how to tell other people how to make money by telling other people how to make money.

Re:From an Airtable to $9.2k in Side Income by dexwiz on Sunday October 11, 2020 @01:32PM (#24747498)
The fact that “shop therapy” is a term makes me shudder.