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by meheleventyone 1005 days ago
People voluntarily pay to smoke products that give them cancer which is probably more "actively harmful" than "largely useless". Which is to say that the value proposition is largely subjective so the OP is entirely within their right to wonder why on earth people pay for those things!

I think the better takeaway should be that other people have very different problems to you, don't always act rationally about things and waving something shiny at them is a good way to get them to spend.

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> "largely useless"

> don't always act rationally about things

And by that you surely mean that they act in the way you do not approve of.