• meseek #2982@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    R&D cost lol, there’s no such thing. That’s what companies want you to believe so they can upsell medicine and technology.

    This is just another market rife for capitalism to ensnare. Some guy crunched the numbers and found that x% don’t drink at events. So to recoup that lost revenue, they made this. The drinks, the ads, the news articles that cover it. All planted to drive up their bottom line.

    Because that’s how businesses work. They find an angle and swoop in and start setting up payment systems to see what people will begrudgingly pay for.