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It's true tbh, I would rather pay $150 for items with free shipping than $100 for items + $50 for shipping
re: airbnb discourse
in college I worked as a server at an upscale steakhouse. we had a few different steak sauces that were made from scratch daily. they were expensive to make, and less than half of the customers that ordered steak wanted sauce, so the restaurant charged $3 for it
we got complaints constantly. just at my own tables, half a dozen times a week I'd get complaints about being "nickel and dimed" for $3 of sauce on a $70 steak. a few times a month someone would mention it in an angry online review, or ask to speak to a manager and demand that it be removed from the bill because "who the hell charges for condiments?"
after several years of this, finally management had enough. they raised the price of every steak by $3, and now complimentary sauce was included with each steak on request. want to hazard a guess about how many customers complained about the $3 price increase on steak? essentially zero.
it was great, from the restaurants perspective! no more complaints, and instead of making $3 on 40% of steak orderers, they made $3 on all of them. and the customers were much happier, despite this deal being absolutely, unequivocally worse for them.
consumers are not rational agents from microeconomics textbooks. very often the *feeling* of what they're being charged for matters way more than the absolute value of what they're being charged. I think that's more or less what happening with airbnb. people don't want to be charged a cleaning fee and then also told they have to clean, even if in the counterfactual world the additional cleaning fee is more than they'd be willing to pay someone to do the required cleaning. a $100 cleaning fee *feels* better than a $50 cleaning fee + "load the dishwasher and take the trash out to the dumpster", even though most people would not pay $50 to not have to do that.
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Oh so this is the context
i'm sorry but the japanese were literally singling out immigrants and muslims, pushing racist and xenophobic narratives because they were offended that a fictional anime flag was being used as a symbol of resistance, and dismissing why people were protesting in the first place. so why are we reframing the whole thing as if the french and everyone else just got petty for no fucking reason?
I think artists spoil France when they do tours because they know that French people are about that life when it comes to protests 😭😭
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i’m genuinely curious. is this a libido issue, a trauma response, or a case of sexual compatibility not being fully considered before marriage? or is there something about the dynamics of marriage itself that causes women to lose sexual desire for their partners?
