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“What if we just doubled the price?” - some genius executive that never created a damn thing in their life

That only works for housing and healthcare.

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You forgot groceries, mandatory insurance, and utilities…

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big part of apple’s success is that it successfully establishes itself as a status symbol - it is for a lot of people what car was for generation of their parents and grandparents.

so there will definitely be a clientele for that two times expensive whatever. some people will buy it just to show others they can afford it, same reason why people were buying overpriced cars.

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