Comments on: Always Get Your Rebates (PDFPen Can Help) http://tntluoma.com/apple/get-your-rebates-with-pdfpen/ Stuff I've Written Down Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:19:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Marc http://tntluoma.com/apple/get-your-rebates-with-pdfpen/comment-page-1/#comment-1642 Marc Tue, 20 May 2008 01:20:20 +0000 http://tj.tntluoma.com/apple/get-your-rebates-with-pdfpen#comment-1642 <p>Rebates aren't a scam per se; they're a dual pricing system. The scam, or myth at least, is the idea that single flat pricing exists. It doesn't because it can't, and it can't because we have a society with grave wealth inequalities that mean a half-hour of your life doesn't have the same risk value as a half-hour of someone else's.</p> <p>Rebates are simply work - they allow you to turn some of your time, intelligence and capacity for stress into money, subsidised by richer people who have different money vs. opportunity cost tradeoffs. The unfortunateness comes in the bureaucracy of it all, because we don't trust each other enough to honestly indicate our relative wealth without a lot of paper effort in between. Rather like growing a long feathery tail to indicate fitness, only here we use makework to indicate lack of wealth. ;)</p> <p>All that said, I hate rebates too and appreciate the PDFPen link, as well as your system.</p> Rebates aren’t a scam per se; they’re a dual pricing system. The scam, or myth at least, is the idea that single flat pricing exists. It doesn’t because it can’t, and it can’t because we have a society with grave wealth inequalities that mean a half-hour of your life doesn’t have the same risk value as a half-hour of someone else’s.

Rebates are simply work - they allow you to turn some of your time, intelligence and capacity for stress into money, subsidised by richer people who have different money vs. opportunity cost tradeoffs. The unfortunateness comes in the bureaucracy of it all, because we don’t trust each other enough to honestly indicate our relative wealth without a lot of paper effort in between. Rather like growing a long feathery tail to indicate fitness, only here we use makework to indicate lack of wealth. ;)

All that said, I hate rebates too and appreciate the PDFPen link, as well as your system.

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