So here’s the deal… Amazon gets you to trade your ‘real money’ for things that aren’t real… \u00a0Oh wait, isn’t that what they do with Kindle books already? \u00a0Don’t get me wrong, I buy TONS of Kindle books – but I protect my investment. \u00a0So what is the difference, what is the rub; this little marketing ploy works something like this:<\/p>\n
Buy 500 coins, for $9.95. Then we will sell you digital objects for these fake coins instead of ‘real’ money – today you can get 10 items for 100 coins – so really, you are getting a great deal! \u00a0But what you don’t really understand is that the real value of the products you are buying can now be arbitrarily set and after a while you won’t even realize that when they get you down to 1 item for 250 coins you are paying almost $5 for something you used to be able to get for 10 cents.<\/p>\n
Funny thing is, this is exactly what our U.S. government did to us when they took away the gold standard; so today, we don’t really even have a concept of the value of a product that we pay for with U.S. Currency (because it really isn’t of any value anyway).<\/p>\n
It’s the oldest trick in the book; I’ll go for a lot of things Amazon, but you won’t catch me on this one!<\/p>\n
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