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It's true. The defaults are so powerful, and free is one of the most powerful default settings.
It's funny, one of the things that I think about is wanting to preserve my budget -- to stay solvent. Which is a weird thing to want, since what amounts to quite a hefty zap, like 1000 sats, is not yet thirty cents. And yet there's a scarcity mindset, even when the thing itself is not scarce.
Will be really interesting to see how norms evolve over time. @Undisciplined has set in motion a very intriguing psychological experiment with this post.
I hope so. It's certainly very intriguing to me.
Very true. I have to admit that my first real exposure to value for value was fountain. My instinct was to hoard my sats, and I was uncomfortable paying for an episode, no matter how much I got out of it.
I feel that. But at some point, I realized: Why do I care so much about pocket change?
So I just calculated the value of my sats in fiat terms (yes, i know but it is how it is) and then decided how much i would like / wouldn't care at all to listen to good stuff for 60 minutes (since it's sats / minute on Fountain iirc). Basically like an upper bound since I probably won't listen to podcasts for 3+ hours per day.
I also love that Darknet Diaries is on Fountain. And since it's not even a bitcoin podcast, I especially want to support it!
That's still how I behave on Fountain, but I'm trying to be better.
Just start with 1 sat payments :)
I have it set at 4 sats/minute. Fortunately, most of the podcasts I listen to haven't set up their wallets yet.
i think we just got used to not paying for stuff at all. not even 1 sat.
like 0 interest rates gave companies bad (spending) habits
companies which made us the product gave us bad habits, too