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If it were true companies could never legally offer discounts, bundles, whatever. Long term thinking (eg acquire customers at less profit today) would be impossible if immediate profits always had to come first.


You think companies offer discounts, bundles or whatever out of altruism? The goal is to maximize profits with those things, although it's future profits, not immediate profit.


That was exactly the point I was attempting to make.




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