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I think mass marketing, huge factories and economies of scale have made us grown accustomed to cheap goods.

Posted by Lon_cHaneY (aka con_carne) Oct 14 '10, 13:01

IMO, when you start talking about the $40 steak or expensive scotch, that is more in line with what things would actually cost if we didn't have assembly lines and all that stuff. Quality items are made by hand, and each person down the line needs to get paid in order for the product to sustain itself. When we think that scotch or steak (just examples here) ought to be dirt cheap, we are thinking not in terms of quality products, but in terms of the mass-produced, mediocre quality products that could only be possible with modern factories and mass market. This is not what stuff is supposed to cost.

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Unrelated but I had a teacher once tell us all in class that of all the food in all the supermarkets in the country, there's only enough food to feed - Loyola Oct 14, 13:09
I don't think anyone is saying that cost is supposed to be the same across the board.. - musubi Oct 14, 13:07
Exactamundo. Like the dollar store, for example. -- nm - Don Homer Oct 14, 13:04
But I can go to the local butcher and buy a steak for a decent price and prepare it myself. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 14, 13:02 7
- You can also go home and code a website, while others have to pay $. Part of the price is the knowledge and skill required to prepare it correctly. -- nm - Vermintown Oct 14, 13:04
- That is a different market, you see :) -- nm - Lon_cHaneY Oct 14, 13:03
- his example still holds though. cattle are raised differently. some are factory farms, some.... aren't. -- nm - Andie Oct 14, 13:02 4
  - I want cruelty-free scotch! -- nm - Reagen Oct 14, 13:03 3
    - But it's the cruelty that makes it delicious! -- nm - Roger More Oct 14, 13:06
    - oxymoron, I've seen Braveheart -- nm - crash davis Oct 14, 13:05
    - i bet someone somewhere makes this. -- nm - Andie Oct 14, 13:04

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I think mass marketing, huge factories and economies of scale have made us grown accustomed to cheap goods.

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