I believe trusting any person whose incentive is to take money from you is not a prudent decision.
This happens a lot if you make your purchase decisions based on influenzas promoting certain items.
> I believe trusting any person whose incentive is to take money from you is not a prudent decision.
I simply do not see the correlation. There are many people in the world that want to make money and do so by providing a great product at an affordable price (eg. Gabe Newell). Perhaps it is better to say you shouldn't trust people that who give you something for free to make money off you.
I think Steam gets a little too much leeway. They continue to enable "skins gambling" and recently started[1] selling "microtransactions" in the thousands of dollars to capitalize on the "skins" market. Is that a "great product at an affordable price"?
To be fair that is a lot of professions: lawyers, accountants, doctors, dentists, car mechanics. All could advise you need a service you don’t really need but maximises their revenue.
Except a decent number of those examples have legally binding oaths not to screw you. And if they are found to have screwed you, are barred from their profession and have to pay you a lot of money. Maybe that should be more common.
