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diN0bot
on Jan 15, 2009
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Hidden Secrets of the Amazon Shopping Cart
A good friend on mine interned there. Let me pose something to HN that he posed to me: 90% of my job was to get users to consume more. Is that ok because we're offering a good (cheap, convenient) service or is it slimey?
icey
on Jan 15, 2009
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It sounds like the basics of capitalism to me - I imagine most companies would like their users to consume more, no?
antiismist
on Jan 15, 2009
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"Consume" has negative connotations. How about "transact"? Voluntary transactions are good, because if they were bad people wouldn't do them.
staunch
on Jan 16, 2009
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Voluntary transactions are good, because if they were bad people wouldn't do them.
Why would this be true?
whatusername
on Jan 16, 2009
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He's doing more than most of congress is to prevent a recession!
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