this post was submitted on 31 Jan 2024
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Is it really 140 USD annually in US? Here in EU it's about equivalent of 12 dollars yearly... What is that?
It’s called regulatory capture. They have a monopoly here, so they can just raise their prices until the pain threshold starts diminishing their returns noticeably then dial it back a notch.