The whale mount is up on Mogstation

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This is incorrect. As consumers, this is a business practice that has succeeded because people have fallen for it, and has shaped business models worldwide for the worse. It affects us all.

How have people fallen for it? If people have $30 dollars to spend on something and they want to spend it, they'll spend it. They didn't fall for anything unless all of the sudden the price at checkout somehow bumps up to $60.

To fall for something would imply that they've been tricked into buying it which isn't the case since I'm pretty sure anyone buying something from the Mogstation realizes what they're buying and are perfectly okay with buying it for whatever personal reason that they may have.

What people do with their own money doesn't affect you as a consumer. Someone spending $100 in a grocery store on select items that you may think might be too pricey for the brand does not affect you, someone spending $30 on a virtual whale still does not affect you either. It's not your place to judge or butt in.