The most unhinged thing about modern life is that we've normalised paying $200 a month for the gym and $300 a month for wellness "supplements" but if someone charges $5 for a newsletter they wrote with their actual brain people act like they've been mugged at knifepoint
@Daojoan i blame mobile games, where for no particularly good reason the price-point for a game a small team had spent months developing went from $40 to $1.99 to $0.00
@drj @Daojoan F2P games that have "zero cost" for beginner players often spend $10-20+ USD per new player on the marketing costs. It was that expensive even back in 2014, so considering the inflation etc. the overall costs have likely gone down a bit.