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Originally Posted by geenp
I think it's important that we realise that a lot of this stems from consumers demanding lower prices, it isn't just corporations being greedy. We may not have asked for it but we do vote with our wallets and when demand inevitably increases with price drops, it's pretty clear to the corporations what it is that we want.
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I would hate to live in a world where consumers don't hold companies' feet to the fire by demanding lower prices. I know we're talking about electronics here but it wasn't that long ago that people paid a much higher percentage of their income just for food before the advent of national supermarket chains. It's easy to focus only on the negative and wax eloquent about the little locally owned main street grocer for instance, but efficiencies driven in part by demand for lower prices has been a net positive for humanity.