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What a sale's pitch!
The same kind of sale's pitch for wood, or steel or a screwdriver: buy it if you want it to do whatever you want with them.
Not everything needs a sale's pitch. That's kind of my point: a portable video camera that goes with you everywhere is cool tech as a raw material, like wood or steel.
Some people wouldn't get the value of a piece of wood because they don't have the skills to turn it into anything they want/need. Instead, they want somebody to overcharge them for renting a "table service" that they can only use 60 times per month in the basic plan. It is that people that need a "sale's pitch" to convince them to buy the stupid "pro table plan".
Holy false equivalencies, Batman!