eric5h5: OK, now you're starting to get it. Are you capable of self-reflection? "Why Factorio no have discount! I want discount! If they no devalue their work just for me they is bad! They should work for free to give me stuff! WAAHHHHHHH!!!!! ::throws tantrum::"
You're the one who keeps babbling about corporations; nobody else mentioned them.
Theoclymenus: No, you twist the meaning of the word through 180 degrees you scoundrel ! It is a term which is meant to express a kind of arrogant and mindless expectation on the part of somebody who so far has always had things his own way. Like an arrogant corporation, for example, or a fan of a team which always wins so that they cry when they don’t win. It is not legitimate to use the term in the sense in which you are using it. The greedy company is the one which always goes” WAH WAH WAH, I want my money”. Please stop hijacking meanings of words to suit your own purposes and then ranting on like an arrogant know-it-all.
This specific usage of the word comes from England and belongs to a very specific context (i.e. football, or “soccer”). It never did have anything to do with any relationship between company and customer. That is just a mischievous abuse of the term which practically turns the meaning of the word on its head. It is ARROGANT, spoilt people who are targeted by this word, not simple customers.
And you don't see how you are the arrogant customer here, filled with sense of false entitlement? Coming here, demanding discount, or at least a justification for a price policy from a company that owes you nothing? (BTW they DID blog post to justify their policy).
"Arrogant and mindless expectation from somebody who always had things go his own way" is correct, but it's a lot of words to describe a concept that we already have single well-understood word for. Good for dictionary, not so good for normal conversation.
And like it or not, entitlement is perfect word to describe it. You can complain, you can cry, but that's about all you can do about it. It's well established meaning by now. And English is not your private property to demand how other people use it. Come to think about it, that feeling like you can dictate how people use it is pretty arrogant too. You are not *cough* entitled to that.
English is not my primary language, but just from looking through dictionary I know there are usually a lot of meanings to many words, sometimes in direct opposition to each other. Entitlement is just another example in that list, it has both positive and negative meanings. See screenshow (dictionary.com, you may notice there is NO mention of football anywhere. There IS a mention about arrogance, but it's not limited to corporations. Or football fans).
