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hinkleyyesterday at 11:53 PM0 repliesview on HN

It's always more complicated than that because the prestige and Early Adopter users are what drag other people to also be customers to avoid FOMO.

Your gym members who got a subscription aspirationally and don't show up are absolutely subsidizing the power lifter who is introducing wear on (tens of?) thousands of dollars of equipment three times a week, but if the regulars weren't there you wouldn't have sold those subscriptions at all. Without a poster child there's no poster.