Economic thought of the day
2005年12月6日11時26分As Americans, we often place more value on things based on the perceived profit between what the thing is worth in relation to how much we paid. Hence our obsession with bargains–we buy the crappy, half-off DVD player. When we aren’t frustrated with the crashing or poor user-interface, we gloat to our friends about what great a deal it was.
But is that how it should be? Perhaps we should value things’ intrinsic worth more. So I leave you with a kernel of wisdom embedded deep within the confines of the billg labyrinth:
What good is having all the money in the world if you can’t buy anything good with it?
