Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John Savard Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: The insane progress nobody is talking about Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 19:23:21 -0600 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 13 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2024 03:23:21 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c0884c951618dc0b5d1da09bdf5ffb68"; logging-data="2364281"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/8SNB1scsV43vvva9q3fvPAYYAbsKx3Q4=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:zo3CU69Q35Lh0sI3pF8kd1TDzpk= X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 3.3/32.846 Bytes: 1592 On 19 Jun 2024 18:22:02 -0000, kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote: > The problem is that people >don't want to pay more money for a better product unless they are forced to >do so. Perhaps because they've learned, by long and bitter experience, that paying more for a product doesn't guarantee that it will be of better quality, so, unless they have definite knowledge that one product is of superior quality, the safest way to avoid wasting money is to buy the cheapest? John Savard