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Re:It costs $110k to fully gear up in Diablo Immortal by patrec on Sunday June 05, 2022 @06:15AM (#31629601)
> It's hard for a person in the throes of addiction to last as a whale for long.

They don't have to. Repeatedly unearthing cow-clickers whom you can milk for $10'000 before sending them into financial ruin sounds like a much more viable business strategy to me than trying to build a portfolio of people both rich and dumb enough to sustainably cow-click.

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Re:It costs $110k to fully gear up in Diablo Immortal by Karrot_Kream on Monday June 06, 2022 @03:21PM (#31644767)
> build a portfolio of people both rich and dumb enough to sustainably cow-click

I think you're putting wealthy folks on way too high of a pedestal. The wealthy aren't some hyper-rational, utility-maximizing robots. They're people with likes and dislikes like any other. Being a whale for a very rich person or a very rich family is a drop in the bucket in terms of their net worth. Plenty of people can keep their degeneracy to a budget.

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