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Workaccount2today at 12:53 PM1 replyview on HN

If you're not paying for a product (the full price), then you are the product.

If you're not paying for the product, and you aren't the product, you're in the start-up phase and just eating the bait. And man, people have been eating a lot of bait.


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JKCalhountoday at 2:36 PM

These days it's no surprise when you are both paying for the product and are the product as well.

A lot of us learned this when cable television arrived—you paid for it, but no commercials…until there were.

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