"Upgrade Now" To Get What Was Previously Included At No Extra Charge
In this realm of extraction, exploitation, artifice and illusion, "growth" is garbage.
Tube of toothpaste: $4. Tube of toothpaste with cap: $5. You may reckon this is an exaggeration of the trend to coercing us to "upgrade now" to get what was previously included at no extra charge, but rest assured some marketing maven is reading this and thinking, hey, this is brilliant: we can make the cap leak or fall off, and then offer a Premium ver…
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