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My cable service provider has taken the time to write and inform me that my internet access fees will be going up by close to $10 per month. However, I can get that money back and save myself money by paying for more features.
Normally I'll now be paying $52 per month for access. However, if I subscribe to one of their packages, I can save $10 by paying $99 to $120 per month. Therefore, by their math, 120 < 50.
That's great! By this rationale, 0 > 50; so I can stop paying them for my service and they'll be saving a whole whack of cash!
How are they able to, without the assistance of irony or dark satire, say to me that by adding more services and paying for more things I'll be saving money compared to what I'm currently paying? It's as though math is now cyclical and that by adding so much I can arrive at an amount lower than when I began.
It's like you hired a stable-boy to clean out the horse manure. But instead, he just keeps adding more crap from other horses to the pile, stacking it ever-higher into a gigantic feces pyramid.
"Don't worry about the mess," he says, "I'm shoveling negative-shit onto the pile."
Normally I'll now be paying $52 per month for access. However, if I subscribe to one of their packages, I can save $10 by paying $99 to $120 per month. Therefore, by their math, 120 < 50.
That's great! By this rationale, 0 > 50; so I can stop paying them for my service and they'll be saving a whole whack of cash!
How are they able to, without the assistance of irony or dark satire, say to me that by adding more services and paying for more things I'll be saving money compared to what I'm currently paying? It's as though math is now cyclical and that by adding so much I can arrive at an amount lower than when I began.
It's like you hired a stable-boy to clean out the horse manure. But instead, he just keeps adding more crap from other horses to the pile, stacking it ever-higher into a gigantic feces pyramid.
"Don't worry about the mess," he says, "I'm shoveling negative-shit onto the pile."
2 Comments:
Hey, just to let you know, I love your blog! Very creative, very funny, very poignant. Thanks for the wander down Rage lane.
I've linked to you at my blog.
Cheers!
Thank you very much!
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