How Video Games Trick You Into Spending Money
People spend hundreds of dollars on in-game purchases in video games. How do companies trick you into using real money to buy fake items? Money Is ...
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If you’re not so good with money, you should try holding on to your cash. Hello Scrooges, Julian here for DNews. If you’re like me, you’re bad with money. Nerdy T-shirt? I need it. Steam Summer sale? Wallet armageddon. Something that even vaguely references Futurama? “Shut up and take my money!” If I could just stop burning through all the sweet sweet internet cash I’m making, I’d be a hundredaire by now. Luckily for me there might be a way to curb my spending sprees, and it’s as simple as switching from credit cards to cash. Not because you can’t pay with cash online or because cash purchases don’t charge an interest rate, though I’m sure those both help. At an even more fundamental level, it’s just harder to part with money that you are physically holding in your han...
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If you’re not so good with money, you should try holding on to your cash. Hello Scrooges, Julian here for DNews. If you’re like me, you’re bad with money. Nerdy T-shirt? I need it. Steam Summer sale? Wallet armageddon. Something that even vaguely references Futurama? “Shut up and take my money!” If I could just stop burning through all the sweet sweet internet cash I’m making, I’d be a hundredaire by now. Luckily for me there might be a way to curb my spending sprees, and it’s as simple as switching from credit cards to cash. Not because you can’t pay with cash online or because cash purchases don’t charge an interest rate, though I’m sure those both help. At an even more fundamental level, it’s just harder to part with money that you are physically holding in your han...
