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> will say that I don't fall into all of Zynga's traps: > I don't give them money because a) I can see that it's not > rational to send money on such items, and b) I'm broke and > don't have the money to spend anyway.

Especially on HN, i would expect people to point out that spending valuable time on X, is as irrational as spending money on X.

.. we all don't have the time to spend anyway..

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I never said it wasn't irrational. It's definitely irrational for me to spend so much time on the game, but that's the whole point of the article. Zynga uses compulsion, not fun, to keep players coming back. Compulsion isn't rational, so if you're arguing "but that isn't rational" then you've missed a big portion of not only the article, but my overly verbose comment as well.

You make time. Same reason people "have time" to gamble, or do whatever feeds their particular addiction. Speaking from experience here.

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