The rake's impact on preflop play medium stakes to higher stakes

[DMACM]

Since online sites dont rake over 3$ per hand medium stakes games have a higher percent raked then higher stakes games. Does this then mean that a fewer percentage of hands are profitable at a medium stakes all other factors being equal?

I assume that it is accepted that looser player pay a higher rake but does anyone know how much? I would be very interested to know the rake paid per hour at a given stake of a 40VPIP player and a 20VPIP player.

My point is that if you look down at 78s utg one of the factors on whether you should play it is -am I willing to pay the house to play this hand?

[DJ Sensei]

yea, you pay more rake when you play more aggressively.

but, to beat MSNL for the largest winrates, you kinda have to play aggressively.

so, i guess theres a gradient between the two with some optimal solution, but, its not worth it to try and figure that out, rather than just learn to play better all-around.

[CopTHIS]

I've never given the rake a second thought as far as play goes, and I'd be surprised if many people actually play differently in any way for that reason.