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Originally Posted by Alanon
You're ignoring that novel principle called marketing. For quite a while now it's not really been about the price of a potato, but about the ways of convincing customers that inside that $500 potato is a hidden gold nugget worth 5000 dollars. It's not about the actual value of the potato, but the perceived value.
Just the market setting a price for a good? That doesn't really change anything.[snip]
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I thought your first 3 paragraphs were excellent and made some good points. However, I find that I can't really discuss your last paragraph in any meaningful way without crossing the line into politics. Perhaps a good illustration of one of the points you made. This whole topic reeks of politics.