Popeye_Card wrote:Overpriced:
Belts. Seriously, what the hell? You learn how to make one of these in Leatherworking 101. Simple strap of leather, a few punched holes, and a pretty simple buckling mechanism.
Why do you cost so much?
Ties. See belts.
Salads. At a decent restaurant, why does a salad cost as-much or more than a full entree, when most of the raw ingredients are so cheap?
Underpriced:
Screws. You can get hundreds of them for a few bucks. A single screw seems way harder to make than a tie, yet you cannot buy hundreds of ties for a few bucks.
Batteries. Again, these things are pretty complex, and you can get several of them for a few bucks. It seems way harder to make a battery than to make a salad.
Gasoline. Hear me out. Some companies take some water, filter it through some charcoal, put it in a bottle, and charge you $2 per liter ($8 a gallon) to purchase it at a gas station. Gasoline starts as crude oil deep in the ground, gets extracted, gets transported to a refinery, is refined, gets transported to a terminal, trucked to a gas station, and is pumped into your car (where it has the power to transport thousands of pounds for 20-30 miles). $2-3-ish a gallon right now, about half of which is tax. That seems like a relative good deal.
Absolutely agree with everything you said.
Only reason people complain about gas is becasue they are forced to pay that price. Re: water, they can simply shower, flush the toilet, brush their teeth, etc for the standard meter rate which is what pennies per gallon?
I wouldn't put metered water int eh underpriced section, but it is a lot of work to get that safe drinking water to the end user. Secure a stash of water, be it a river, lake, reservoir, etc, build/maintain a treatment plant, build/maintain an infrastructure or lines to carry it, meter it, then build the house with plumbing to correctly use the infrastructure.
