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Old 06-21-2018, 09:46 PM   #45
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Originally Posted by Jay Random View Post
If we're making car analogies, try this on:

Our old limousine runs just fine and is good for another couple of hundred thousand klicks, mechanically speaking. But the cost of fuel and wages for the driver keep going up and up, and the spoilt rich people who use our limo service want to hire newer and fancier cars. Either we go crazy in debt to buy a new limo, or we let the competition slowly squeeze us out of business. Neither option is what you would call attractive.
It's more like the limousine company telling everyone they better buy him a new limo so he can charge them more money and maximise his earnings by catering to a higher clientele, pushing out all those middle-class peasants. Not only that, but they have to pay for his gas, insurance, maintenance and he's going to leave his old limo by the side of the road so they'll have to pay to have it towed and scrapped. Meanwhile, the cost to rent the limo is already out of reach for many of the people being asked to pay for the new one.
If they don't, he's going to move his limo company to a new city, even though he's got a steady, loyal customer base and making more money than half the limo companies in other cities.
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