OKAY, I GIVE UP:

The high cost of low prices: Our bizarre obsession with vanity gadgets allows us to feign class equality -- and that's bad for everyone (David Sirota, 11/12/10, Salon)

At the level of logic -- i.e., the level of Best Buy showroom decisions -- cheap seems to make financial sense. The printer may quickly die, but why worry if printer prices keep dropping? New televisions may last only half as long as they once did, but what's the big deal if those televisions now cost a third of what they used to?

At what level is it not a good deal to get a superior product cheaper?

Posted by Orrin Judd at November 12, 2010 6:24 PM