The price of everything and the value of nothing
A little while ago, I was thinking of buying a [thing] to replace [unsatisfactory thing I have had for some years] and was looking at the price and thinking 'isn't that a bit expensive for [thing]' even though it a) came highly recommended and b) is something one is likely to have use out of for some years.
And then thought of those things that I would spend a similar amount on in a week/for something that would last several months/etc.
(Would add here that it was a thing that was well within the parameters of what I could afford.)
Which made me think more generally of what one feels is The Just Price for a particular thing -
- and okay, have lately been changing the insurance provider for the common areas insurance policy, which has been subject to that inertia creep upwards that Which cautions us about over a period of years, and made me muse more generally on things that maybe one wouldn't have started out paying that much but gee, it just went up a little bit at a time...
(Like cinema tickets.)
I'm fairly aware that I have a calculus with books as to what is buy in hardback when it comes out/wait for the mass market paperback or equivalently priced ebook/hope that the academic press that publishes it will ask me to referee a manuscript in return for books/cheap enough to take a punt on/well, it was a freebie. Though I'm not entirely sure what goes in these categories makes entire logical sense, and there are some writers that I just can't bring myself to buy in hardback because I think of them as paperback writers. This entry was originally posted at https://oursin.dreamwidth.org/2695384.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
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