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Originally Posted by Bremen Cole
My Sony PRS-300 cost me $180. All it does is display text for me to read. I got Kindle for iPhone and PC for free. So why did I pay for what I can easily get for free? Because as a consumer in a free market economy I can buy what I can afford to, and not have to justify it to anyone. If I choose to buy 20 iPads and use them as paper weights, no one is ripping me off. Again, I am buying, and getting, what I want...
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At first we are not living in a free market society. One hint is the huge bank bailouts. in a free market society you wouldn't have that. Secondly the monetary system isn't supporting a free market (as another hint - I won't go deeper in that - just read 'Web of Debt' and you know more).
It's not legally a ripoff but morally. It's the same with beauty products which costs hundreds of dollars and give you no advantage.
And the last point, we are not living in a free market society because a free market would need informed objective customers (which you only have in parts). With the same argumentation you could say the credit companies aren't ripping people off but my point is that they aren't educated in that area and it's not all their fault.
Get away from the thought of 'free markets' - they only exist in economy theories ...