Re:Dear Adobe, we need a special price in Egypt
by bigmattystyles on Friday January 20, 2023 @01:06PM
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Don’t think of it as money directly. Rather think of it as time. When you do, the quantities required are probably a lot closer.
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Re:Dear Adobe, we need a special price in Egypt
by umvi on Friday January 20, 2023 @04:00PM
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That's what I'm saying. People are used to paying for a good based on its intrinsic value (cost to manufacture/distribute/etc. + some profit margin). But since digital goods are nearly 100% profit margin once created, you can instead pay with "time" aka % of your income.
That's why it's surreal (for me at least) - it would be like walking into a grocery store, but instead of fixed prices the items on shelves had labels like "Box of Lucky Charms: .005% of your annual income"