BigBadBeef
Active Member
"I will buy whatever the hell I want, when I want, the rest of you penniless peasants should mind your own business because it doesn't concern you! 
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This type of response to people being confronted with buying hardware that the general public has consensus of being "bullshit levels of expensive", the most recent one that sparked this argument once again is the purchase of an nVidia RTX 4090 graphics card. In terms of this I have prepared an official, moderate response:
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You have made a rather audacious claim that your spending habits have nothing do with us. That's exactly where you're wrong. You see, the supplier of your product is a corporation. A corporation's primary goal is to maximize profit. Its not malice, they have owners to answer to. If you owned a stock, your primary concern would also be to get as much value from a stock as possible. And don't pretend that it wouldn't. If you were really an altruist, you'd buy a cheaper product and donate the difference in price to charity and we wouldn't be having this argument.
And as such, being what they are, they will, like a toddler who tries to push his limits with his parents, also try to push the envelope in just how much money they can exert from you. By buying overpriced products you are not only endorsing their ethical misconduct, you are encouraging the worsening of such. By escalating such behavior, you are indirectly responsible for putting a product that should have been otherwise affordable, out of reach of thousands of people, and it will only get worse until you're also the one squealing over just how much you're willing to pay for it.
But does it really need to get that far? Your wallet is your biggest weapon on the consumer market, why won't you wield it? By striking the supplier of your purchase into the dirt at a regular basis and make sure they never stray even a little from it, we can ensure fair, equitable and quality products for all involved, even you will benefit. And if you got too much money, come over to our side anyway, and give me the surplus, I won't mind, really... and you'll still get what you want, maybe even better!
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Now I know these types of fights aren't present on this site, and my intent is not to spark one, but rather it is made in the hope that there people here that are either participating in the flame wars that are occurring all over the internet or observing them, being unsure in how to involve themselves.
I would ask, that any who are willing, disseminate my response or use it as a basis of their own, in order to either prevent or stop the battle from becoming a flame war and assert that we are not enemies, but rather allies in this endeavor, and like the misguided troops of a dictator, they need to be made to see the error of their ways rather than spat on for defending the enemy.
My best regards,
BBB
"This type of response to people being confronted with buying hardware that the general public has consensus of being "bullshit levels of expensive", the most recent one that sparked this argument once again is the purchase of an nVidia RTX 4090 graphics card. In terms of this I have prepared an official, moderate response:
"
You have made a rather audacious claim that your spending habits have nothing do with us. That's exactly where you're wrong. You see, the supplier of your product is a corporation. A corporation's primary goal is to maximize profit. Its not malice, they have owners to answer to. If you owned a stock, your primary concern would also be to get as much value from a stock as possible. And don't pretend that it wouldn't. If you were really an altruist, you'd buy a cheaper product and donate the difference in price to charity and we wouldn't be having this argument.
And as such, being what they are, they will, like a toddler who tries to push his limits with his parents, also try to push the envelope in just how much money they can exert from you. By buying overpriced products you are not only endorsing their ethical misconduct, you are encouraging the worsening of such. By escalating such behavior, you are indirectly responsible for putting a product that should have been otherwise affordable, out of reach of thousands of people, and it will only get worse until you're also the one squealing over just how much you're willing to pay for it.
But does it really need to get that far? Your wallet is your biggest weapon on the consumer market, why won't you wield it? By striking the supplier of your purchase into the dirt at a regular basis and make sure they never stray even a little from it, we can ensure fair, equitable and quality products for all involved, even you will benefit. And if you got too much money, come over to our side anyway, and give me the surplus, I won't mind, really... and you'll still get what you want, maybe even better!
"
Now I know these types of fights aren't present on this site, and my intent is not to spark one, but rather it is made in the hope that there people here that are either participating in the flame wars that are occurring all over the internet or observing them, being unsure in how to involve themselves.
I would ask, that any who are willing, disseminate my response or use it as a basis of their own, in order to either prevent or stop the battle from becoming a flame war and assert that we are not enemies, but rather allies in this endeavor, and like the misguided troops of a dictator, they need to be made to see the error of their ways rather than spat on for defending the enemy.
My best regards,
BBB
