Text archives Help


Re: [projectvrm] Is VRM an Ideologically-inspired Dead-end?


Chronological Thread 
  • From: Don Marti < >
  • To: Chris Savage < >
  • Cc: Joe Andrieu < >,
  • Subject: Re: [projectvrm] Is VRM an Ideologically-inspired Dead-end?
  • Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:04:29 -0700

begin Chris Savage quotation of Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 11:02:45AM -0400:

> (3) Vendors can induce people to buy stuff via what they learn from
> tracking -- maybe even more stuff than the people would buy in the
> "Gold Standard" scenario -- and thus make extra money by tracking,
> even though people are less happy as a result of being (in this
> case) manipulated into buying crap they don't really need or want.

I'd have to agree with number three. People's
budget-making selves are always pulling tricks on
their stuff-craving selves to keep the unmindful
purchasing down. And sellers are taking sides with
the stuff-craving self against the rest of the
individual.


--
Don Marti +1-510-332-1587 (mobile)
http://zgp.org/~dmarti/ Alameda, California, USA




Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.19.