Comment on A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them

• TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I still don’t get it. aren’t pyramid and ponzi schemes more or less the same thing? how is the original subject either of them?

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  • Luffy879@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So, a service is something yourself have to pay for continuusly. A VPN Server from hetzner for example costs like 30€ a month, so in order for it to be lifelong, meaning like 80 Years, you`d have to pay 28.800€. And I say that with only 1 active Server.

    So if you only pay like 300€ or less once for lifetime, you`d still have to rely on people paying the subscription in order to subcidize the cost of the people who paid only once.

    But since people who use it regularly will buy a lifetime license, you always need a steady stream of New users to subsidize the old ones

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    ^ /\ / \ / \ / \ / \ /oldest users\ ----------------------- / \ / \ / Newer users \ / Switching to \ / Lifetime \ ------------------------------------------ / \ / \ / Newest users paying for losses \ / From Lifetime licenses \ ::

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