ELI5: My question is really specific but I could do a lot better if someone could explain it to me in layman terms.

Let’s say you have an arranged marriage. The girl is cute and has potential but she doesn’t have the banging body you hoped for. So you agree to pay the parents $10k for their daughters hand in marriage. You’d pay more but in order to do so shed need to have an ass that can crack a walnut and be obsessed with pleasing you in bed with multiple women. Of course you’re no prize either so you pay the $10k and figure you’ll watch pornhub to make your wet dreams come true.

Two years later, your wife becomes addicted to your dick and has turned into the hot slut you always dreamed of. Her parents turn to you and say...she’s worth a lot more than $10k Pablo, pay up. You turn around and say sorry but the revenue you reported includes the deferred value from all the software upgrades that have been installed since purchase.

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