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I'm going to quote another user's comment on this to show this does have a market and the founders were honest about it:
It's not for you to decide on if someone else should buy it. End of fucking story. I can guarantee you have bought some things that I would deem to be stupid, and not having a positive expected value too. People spend money on whatever the fuck they like, some douchebag named Linus tripling down on his incompetent review is the problem here... again, it has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not the product is overpriced to you or to the general consumer. That doesn't fucking matter.
I'm into tools, I work on all my own vehicles and have a shop. I have bought a gold plated ratchet, I paid twice as much for it over the same thing with normal chrome plating. It's a showpiece. That's what this is. And it's function deserves to be reviewed accurately, or not at all.
Like I said, I'm not invested enough in rich people who buy dumb shit to defend them online. I just don't care, and I don't care if all content online doesn't cater to them, as you seem to suggest. You seem to suggest some kind of violence even, in not catering to idiots with too much money and time. Sorry man, but no, that's no the "hot take" you think it is. LTT and Billet labs can be dumb simultaneously.
wtf does this even mean. this sounds like the kinda shit someone who buys a gold plated ratchet would say