{"id":44272,"date":"2016-11-29T11:47:42","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T15:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=44272"},"modified":"2020-07-28T11:47:53","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T15:47:53","slug":"interesting-logic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=44272","title":{"rendered":"Interesting logic"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I still remember when Jet.com first launched.\u00a0 The media and internet touted them as an online retailer that could compete with Amazon.\u00a0 They had an interesting business model that was along the lines of things get cheaper the more you purchase.\u00a0 However, the notion of a membership fee was a tremendous turnoff for me, because I don\u2019t really want to pay to have the right to shop.<\/span><\/p>\n

Regardless, Jet seemed to do well without cheapskates like me supporting them.\u00a0 To the point where they attracted the eye of the much-reviled Wal-Mart, and ultimately sold to them<\/a> for $3.3 billion dollars, because they thought that acquiring Jet would help them combat Amazon.<\/span><\/p>\n

So it sounds like Jet has really hit the big time, but then I saw this commercial recently that makes me wonder just what in the world they\u2019re thinking.\u00a0 Jet\u2019s been pushing something called the \u201cCareculator\u201d in conjunction with their mobile app, where the thought process is that people can<\/em> put a price on their friends and family.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Presumably, by allowing the Jet app to sync to your Facebook account (AKA farm your personal data), users can generate a dollar amount to spend on particular people, based on the number of likes and comments left by their online followers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Because nothing measures the worth of another human being like their ability to push a button, write inane things in response to other peoples\u2019 initiative and the obsessive compulsive need to be connected to social media in their apparent excess of free time.<\/span><\/p>\n

By this logic, my family and friends should spend next to nothing on me, because I\u2019m pretty scant in my Facebook participation in general, opting to primarily lurk and silently judge my Facebook friends on their preferences and opinions, instead of liking everything in sight and commenting and risk actually engaging conversations I probably don\u2019t want to have.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m kind of a bad example to use for this because honestly I\u2019d rather people don\u2019t spend money on me and get me gifts, because then I\u2019d feel no obligation or compulsion to reciprocate and expend effort and money that I can\u2019t always say that I want to give.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, the fallacy of this concept is that everyone knows that one or ten people who are absolutely obsessed with being on Facebook.\u00a0 The people who are the first to comment on absolutely everyone you mutually knows\u2019 status updates, they like everything and utilize the various emotes to specify their likes, and they also go through and comb through all other comments and like every comment that supports their opinion, or detracts from their frenemies that they\u2019re Facebook friends with to keep tabs on them and not because they\u2019re actually friends.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

By Jet\u2019s Careculator logic, then these are the people that should command gigantic price tags for holiday gifts,\u00a0 because clearly they actually are vested in you and every single person on the internet, and not because they really have nothing better to do, and way too much free time on their hands.<\/span><\/p>\n

Imagine the insufferable validation internet addicts would get if this logic actually were legitimate.\u00a0 Because they\u2019re obsessed with being connected, being heard and farming attention, they\u2019re deemed by an app to be the people who should command the highest gift values, and actually cashes in on expensive gifts and lots of them.\u00a0 The long-winded status updates about how their \u201chard work\u201d pays off and that tangible gifts actually correlate with how much people like them.\u00a0 It would be a pitiful end-all in its own right.<\/span><\/p>\n

There\u2019s a good chance that this is a parody wrapped in a farce, presented as a deliberate hoax in order to draw attention.\u00a0 But I don\u2019t really want to care to confirm, because I don\u2019t want to download an extraneous app and hand over all my Facebook information to some data farm, so I\u2019ll just come to the baseless conclusion that Jet is just a pitiful pretender, albeit flush with Wal-Mart money that is taking some unusual and kind of tacky approaches to competing with the competition.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I still remember when Jet.com first launched.\u00a0 The media and internet touted them as an online retailer that could compete with Amazon.\u00a0 They had an interesting business model that was along the lines of things get cheaper the more you purchase.\u00a0 However, the notion of a membership fee was a tremendous turnoff for me, because … Continue reading Interesting logic<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[159,45,101],"class_list":["post-44272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-advertising","tag-fail","tag-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44274,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44272\/revisions\/44274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}