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ipaddrlast Saturday at 3:40 PM1 replyview on HN

Those are not great examples.

Bubble gum puts the buyer in a worse dental health situation.

Windows is a monopoly that controls the desktop market and the buyer would have been better off with a richer market with a variety of options.

You could have said cigarettes. They provide the same pleasure benefits as gum with unhealthy outcomes for the buyer.


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maxericksonlast Saturday at 3:49 PM

You are making the mistake of asserting that the buyer exactly shares your values.

With Windows, I didn't assert that it was the value maximizing case, merely that it benefits both parties. Which it does, mostly likely to the advantage of the buyers.

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