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Re:Stripe migrates Stripe Subscriptions users to more expens... by jb775 on Thursday November 12, 2020 @05:54PM (#25076349)
At the end of the day, you're using electricity to send around a bunch of 1's and 0's. The amount of electricity used doesn't change much whether it represents $10 or $100,000...so why do you need a percentage of the total?

I understand existing banking structures already work on the percentage model (so there's probably downstream percentage-based charges Stripe must pay), but why can't this entire banking structure be disrupted to transfer that value back to society?

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Re:Stripe migrates Stripe Subscriptions users to more expens... by Samin100 on Thursday November 12, 2020 @10:09PM (#25078374)
Cost-based pricing rarely makes sense for software products, as almost all products are just “sending around a bunch of 1’s and 0’s”. If that were the case, almost all software would cost just pennies a month.

I’m not a fan of Stripe’s price increase for recurring plans either, and I think they could’ve communicated it better, but their pricing is far from unreasonable given the amount of research and engineering effort they put into the product that I don’t have to do myself.

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Re:Stripe migrates Stripe Subscriptions users to more expens... by robertlagrant on Friday November 13, 2020 @06:20AM (#25081178)
The majority of most business' costs do not primarily scale with electricity usage.
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Re:Stripe migrates Stripe Subscriptions users to more expens... by brianwawok on Thursday November 12, 2020 @07:49PM (#25077428)
It can be, but one of the big guys will buy you and raise the price of your product.
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