Decades of loyalty points collecting finally yields $5 discount

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As horrible as PC points are the MOI system is 100x worse lol

Ooh yes I get to complain about points systems again:

>Points systems are basically like getting paid at work in “Wizard Tickets” instead of dollars: the company prints them for free, decides that 10,000 Tickets get you a flight, then six months later quietly declares you now need 18,000, your old Tickets have “mysteriously” expired, and the only thing you can still redeem for is a branded stress ball and a Tuesday‑at‑4‑a.m. connection through three airports, while everyone on r/WizardTickets is in the corner furiously explaining why this is actually “free money” if you just spend even more.

Underneath the nerdy optimization, points systems are just a private shadow currency that lets corporations tax everyone to subsidize a few optimizers: they bake the cost of “rewards” into higher prices, skew benefits toward higher spenders, encourage overconsumption and debt, and then quietly claw value back through devaluations and expiry, so you end up with a two‑tier marketplace where the poorest pay full freight in cash while the system routes discounts, perks, and optionality to people who already have surplus money and time to play the game. They should be outlawed.