Yeah golden goose for AutoCAD, eats all the jewelry in the house.

These guys have like super rosy estimates of what kind of bill you can present people with, like David Heinemeier Hanssen, figures "hey $20 a month no big deal" but it's like no $20 is a huge deal. They have an image of America where everybody earns $140000 a year and gets raises no problem, and doesn't get fucked out of practically all of it by the tumor industries--housing, medicine, and education. After the mortgage is paid, after the raise is negotiated, after the college degree turns out does not provide that six-figure paycheck, and after the doctor commits malpractice in a disgusting minute way to get recurring revenue from you, tells you a really sleazy lie to get you on the hook--after all that extortion, people really don't have $20 for a software license left at the end of the month.

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Especially because those tumor industries price discriminate, as we all know tumors tend to squeeze. So it's the realtor trying to fuck you and refusing to show you nice houses you can afford, plus asking 6% commission on a house which of course means he's playing for the other team pumping up the price, telling you to show up with signed checks and shit, and of course blocking development to keep the inventory expensive, they have plenty of time for that. Then the bank extorting you whoops we can't process your mortgage relief act whoops your rate came in 1% higher--banks which can't even compute interest rates correctly, even in Stanford it's so embarrassing, and they just fetishistically want the highest interest rate they can get, so they give you like "incentives" shit, like give you money when you sign the demonic contracts.

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Which are common in all these tumor industries, they're full of debt full of contracts, full of people staring you down--people on whose faces is imprinting the savage betrayal and harm they secretly do to those who can't pay[1]--and figure out exactly how many thousands they can get out of you. Plus they align with your boss--your boss offers you a ride home, now he knows where you live and can talk to the landlord, make sure you never benefit from a raise. Bosses pay for insurance, and the privacy is just not there, the costs bleed out so if you've had illness you're a liability, also because you can be out of work longer and in a justified way. Plus it's a super important factor, the insurance, because it binds you to the job in depressions so he can be more exploitative--bosses love depressions, get people to fucking work and never even think of asking for a raise--and insurance for employees is more than the wage itself in many cases. Then the final and most tumescent industry, education, actually demands you answer all kinds of intimate questions to figure out how much it can extract from "you" meaning the student's parents, for the benefit of the son, who is the one who actually gets fucked if there's delinquency on payment.

Tumor industries. You can't just jack up your price way above inflation forever--AutoCAD and I would say SaaS in general is about finished with their vendor-lock-in phase--the contracts are signed--now comes the tumor phase.

Adobe and AutoCAD are just the beginning.

[1] Ambulances 100% leave people on the side of the road dying when they get enough info on the patient to know they can get away with it (like someone who's been evicted), if he doesn't sign the digital thing getting on the hook for their $1200 taxi ride. You can see it in their face, that's how they get people to sign, by sometimes carrying out the threats they're implying with their shitty attitude. The whole game is pretending there's a choice when actually you and they both tacitly know you're fucked if you don't. They only have to do it a few times per paramedic--and there's magic spells that allow them to do it, like maybe special places that are OK for dumping the dying like they can do a special diagnosis claim you're fine turn around and leave you back at your house--but they do do it or otherwise people wouldn't cooperate like they do. They wouldn't have a legit coercive stare.