<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Bidkat:
Before all you In-A-Free-Market-Businesses-Are-Free-To-Stay-Up-Late-Nights-Thinking-Up-Newly-Creative-Ways-To-Screw-You types jump in, answer this: What if these were not airline miles, but instead something like groceries? So instead of having 500,000 airline miles (originally) worth $10,000, I had 500,000 Grocery Points redeemable for $10,000 in produce, eggs, and milk? And what if I had spent a lot of money getting those Grocery Points because of advertising encouraging me to acquire them because of what they could be redeemed for? And then one day, Ralph's or whoever is running the promotion says Sorry, we've decided they're only good for dried turnips? Do you think people would just go, "Oh well, F me. Better luck next time?" Or do you think they're be Ralph's execs hanging from the nearest lamppost? Do you think that would be legal?</font>
Funny that you would ask a question and then tell anyone that could answer it for you that you don't want to hear from them. I bet you think that raising the minimum wage to $10 would give everyone who is working at an entry level job at least a living wage. My question to all that think this is a true statement is why don't we raise the minimum wage to $100 an hour and then everyone will be wealthy. Well at least those that still have a job. BTW you answered your own question when you stated that "So instead of having 500,000 airline miles (originally) worth $10,000, I had 500,000 Grocery Points redeemable for $10,000 in produce, eggs, and milk?" If you had this situation when the cost of eggs went up you would get fewer eggs.
Sorry but the economic law of supply and demand still applies and it really doesn't matter that we may not want it to.
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