Absurd insurance charges !

[heima]

isn't that the same idea airlines have when they sell their tickets

And hotels when they rent a room, and gas stations when they sell fuel. But that doesn't mean you have to like it.

So in other words, pachinko and pachislo machines are a commodity? In the way that airplane tickets, hotel rooms, and fuel are? Like food is?

To me, that is one of the ugly sides of capitalism. Too much focus on profit. Whatever happened to: doing good business, enjoying your work, and making money? Now the first two are skipped over.

Admittedly, some business have to deal with daily fluctuations of the cost of resources, airlines and jet fuel, gas companies and crude oil, but since when did the value of a building and the employees inside vary on a daily basis? IE, hotels? Yes, supply and demand. Yet web sites like hotwire provide a service of selling unused rooms for hotels. To me, that indicates something wrong with the "soak'em for all they got cause a convention is in town" business model.

Oh hell, here I am ranting again. Sorry about that.