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Originally Posted by rebound
Yes, because it's good business to kill off your customers.  |
rebound, what time frame are we talking for your "kill off"...days, months, years, decades?
I've been witness to business plans that make products with a pre-determined life cycle. These items could be made to last longer, but the idea was that you need to have people dependent on your product...so you can keep selling.
Makes sense, right? No one really wants to make products that will last infinitely...because it would be a one and done sale and you'd have to charge too much money to compensate you for the rest of your life. So, you make things with a known cycle life...which will keep rev's flowing on a predictable basis.
Anyway, why would this be any different in ALL areas of business that produce a product for consumption? You don't want a one and done...not a good business model. For predictable cash flow...you want to create:
A product that people become dependent upon and have to keep coming back for more and frankly, why not create some issues within one area that will lead to solutions from another area where there may be a vested interest?
Which is why I'm so frustrated with the idea of "finding cures"...BS, for them to "find cures"...it's a one and done. Not a good business model. Now, how many of the companies today working on "finding the cure" are publicly traded stock co's?
Seems to me, we have the "hope" of "them" finding a "cure" that will ultimately put them out of business...IT AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN. But, we rally around hope and change, don't we?! How much money is donated every year to fund these "cures" they're working on?
Oh boy, I'm sure I've opened a whole new can of worms now. You see, my distrust goes deep...because I've been in the pit with some vipers...and it's not pretty or nice.