@p @pwuille @fedilist I've definitely met some cases like that, but that's more... They refuse to listen to you. To believe you. And yeah, that's a hopeless case. Maybe they'll listen to someone else and you'll see them again. Many such cases wrt Christianity.
So it's not necessarily that they are overestimating the barrier but that they refuse to adjust that estimate that's the key.

Thing is, I find that sort are already rare enough; most of them will happily adjust their estimate to something reasonably accurate and then still complain that it's too much because it's still higher than megacorp offering 9001 (even when it isn't). In this case it's an excuse for apathy. They just don't care that they're living in a fundamentally fucked world, as a slave.