You know what still surprises me even though I've known it for years?
That spending twice what you normally do for something - some good, some service - does not guarantee, or even make likely, that the quality of what you get will have twice the quality. Sometimes, even half again as good. Occasionally, in fact, it's not even better at all (though usually thats not the case).
That surprises me, still.
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I did not realize this until I read this post! :( It surprised me too...
Have a blessed week..
And yet we persist in the old adage: You get what you pay for. Sometimes you do have to spend that little bit more but sometimes, you are right - there is no difference. You gotta do your homework.
Our rule of thumb is that if you assume you get a bucks worth of value for a buck, then the next buck buys you about 0.75 bucks worth, the one after that about 0.40 bucks worth, and so on. After a while there is no appreciable increase in value with the increase in cost.
Or as someone in an Archer story put it, entering a high-end restaurant, and noting the number of waiters and the plush chairs, you can't eat it, but you can be charged for it.
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