It's literally everything that people in relatively free markets buy.
Microsoft Windows is a great example that people will get really angry about, but like bubble gum also enriches the producer, seller and buyer.
Microsoft Windows is a great example that people will get really angry about, but like bubble gum also enriches the producer, seller and buyer.
Bubble gum puts the buyer in a worse dental health situation.
Windows is a monopoly that controls the desktop market and the buyer would have been better off with a richer market with a variety of options.
You could have said cigarettes. They provide the same pleasure benefits as gum with unhealthy outcomes for the buyer.
With Windows, I didn't assert that it was the value maximizing case, merely that it benefits both parties. Which it does, mostly likely to the advantage of the buyers.
Businesses that expand their licensing agreements with Microsoft aren't doing it because they are being coerced.