I have to disagree with you that it’s not a form of payment. How many platforms offer a subscription model to go ad free? Ads are a revenue stream for any given platform. You either pay the platform with your money, or your time watching ads.

If you disagree that you can’t pay for things with your time, then we will have to agree to disagree

Speak for yourself. My company only stopped using Fortran this decade.

Financial Independence, Retire Early

I feel like this sentiment is exactly backwards in the USA. Corps want to be better than the govt, so they give them excessive $

I work for an international conglomerate. One of our major pieces of internal software is SUSAN named after the guys wife. I’ll never remember his name, but his wife will always be in my mind

My wife had been after me to go to couples therapy. I was convinced we didn’t need it. After a while, I just scheduled something and sent her an appointment notice. Figured if she thought we needed it, I’d give it a try.

She called the therapist and cancelled our appointment soon after i sent her the notice. She claimed, “we didn’t need to spend money on that right now.” She hasn’t brought it up since.

No idea what that was about

Why wait for them to ask you?

Drove a manual for 15 years before I got a more family friendly car.

Not going that route, but covid quarantine definitely showed me how much time I can save by having someone else do my grocery shopping for me.

My grocery store has an annual membership of $100 which includes same day pick up and next day delivery (in a refrigerator truck), among other benefits. Grocery shopping is done on my couch in a fraction of the time. While handling 2 toddlers, that benefit is well worth it to our household

If you want to see it easily, check the Chipotle app. They contract their delivery, so if you change menu from pick-up to delivery, you can see before your eyes how much it’s marked up.

My wife and I used to argue about getting Chipotle delivered when it’s less than a mile from our house. I’ll gladly go pick it up and save the $10-15

providing science

this is my personal experience

This might have something to do with the down votes. You’re using your anecdotal evidence and providing it as science, and you seem to be aware and confident of it

I’ll have you know I looked at every single one in this thread

Mine

Does it change your wall paper every day?

Everyone keeps talking like there isn’t a free version. I didnt pay anything to down load thus app. Did I get hidden charged or something?