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I agree. I like kagi, I like it better than Google. But it's not _that_ much better. Certainly not $10 a month better.

For comparison, I pay $3/month for mightytext. Which is a tool for Android that lets me send/view/search text messages on my phone from any browser. I'd pay $10/month for it, but kagi doesn't give me nearly that much value

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Not feeding my innermost thoughts to an ad network is absolutely worth $10/mo to me.

I'm very glad that my value scale doesnt concern itself with the difference between $3 and $10, I can't imagine going through day to day like that with that level of granularity. That is literally less than the price of a single pizza. A single potato at the store is probably $3

EDIT: I just signed up for Kagi. Youre out of your mind if this isnt worth $10, holy crap this is awesome. The amount of configurations and settings is out of this world. Unless you use google 5 times per month this far exceeds its cost.

I'm glad you're making a lot of money so you can afford to spend 10$ without thinking. Good for you.

It's less about money and more about the mental energy required to distill such a granular view of money/value. $3 is basically the same as $10, or even $50. Even when I slept on the floor of an office building and made $10/hr I never thought like that. It is madness to me. Spend that energy thinking how to make $10 more, which is incredibly easy, far far easier than the mental energy micromanaging single dollars.

If 10$ per hour seems like a low wage for you, that explains it.

It is a low wage... it is literally $5 less than minimum wage.

And also, nothing I said literally changes at all, whether its $7, 10, or $12.

In my country, minimum wage is about 4$ per hour. And as a student, I don't get any wage at all, aside from random one-time jobs and scholarships.

$10/hr is $2.75/hr _above_ the minimum wage

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