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Parity Purchasing Power

Wes Bos · 4 Jan 2021

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  1. Our reading

    Purchasing power parity discounts can make web development training more accessible and reduce piracy and credit card theft.

    Their wordsPPP Discounts are awesome because: It makes my web development training content accessible to many more devs around the world regardless of their income level. I've received tons of amazing stories of people using web development to increase their income and quality of life. It cuts down on piracy and CC theft.

  2. Our reading

    The amount of money lost to people cheating purchasing power parity discounts via VPNs is generally less than the money gained from the discounts themselves.

    Their wordsPeople do cheat it, but not enough that it's a big problem. In general, I make more money from these discounts than I lose from people cheating it.

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