Seperating you from your money

It should be glaringly obvious to everyone that nearly everything in the world is designed with one purpose in mind. Seperating you from your money. SUre that has been the goal for as long as we've had money, but they are getting better at it. Here's an example. Ebay, its a good system to get rid of stuff you don't want, but selling things on ebay seems to keep becoming more and more costly. Just getting the forms filled out keeps getting more complicated. Ebay is constantly adding new widgets you can add to your auction, BOLD, HIGHLIGHTED, SUBTITLE, all these stupid things that serve one purpose, take money away from you.

Windows Vista will now ship with 7 versions, they will probably all suck, and I won't pay for any of them, but how many people are going to be standing around staring at the boxes thinking, do I need standard, Ultimate, Home business edition. Again all they need are two products, home and pro.