My take is that there will always be a few outliers who take advantage of the 'all you can eat' model. But I imagine most of the time they are just outliers and those people don't affect a business' bottom line that much.
If anything such a model is ethical if it means people can save money. I mean, the business still gets to make money, just a little differently than other businesses.
There are also people making >$200k/yr who live in cars and get all their food/showers at their tech employer. Sure you could write an article about them regarding how they’re doing it to save up enough for a down payment. But it’s really just a way to save slightly more money; they could live in a studio and buy their own food, it would just maybe reduce their saving rate by $3k/mo
I feel like this is hard to explain, but to demonstrate that some people (also me, but I’m not that hardcore) are just into this, there are tons of video games where a main part of the gameplay is “min maxing” like this. For example people will spend dozens of hours figuring out how to increase xp or money per hour, then hundreds of hours grinding out their new method, just for fun. The people like the guy from the article doing this are just doing the real-life version of min maxing.
I don't get the outrage over this. Like 'this' is indicative of a horrible society somehow. That someone finding an awesome loophole in a business model using it to their advantage, helping them make a financial investment in themselves, is somehow a horrible thing.
Not everything there is burgers and hot dogs.
The article presents this as if this is some move of financial genius, when all I see him doing is trading health care costs tomorrow for a tiny bit of extra cash today.
In the end, I paid them for my dopamine hit. A fair, capitalistic exchange I’d say.
The next year apparently they made it in-store only, probably because everyone who signed up was doing exactly what I did and they were losing their hat. I'm guessing the OP doesn't have this problem because driving by Six Flags every day isn't really practical for most people. And hey they got some free publicity out of letting this guy abuse the system!
