Buy now die later

Is it all fixed?

When you consider how much something costs to make and try to factor in the price of all the material, labour and transport you begin to realise that it is all arbitrary. If you dig out the raw materials from the ground the earth doesn’t charge anything. All costs are derived from labour charges, taxes, and land lease expenses. It is all based on paying someone an amount for their role. There is no underlying cost just an amount someone charges. Somewhere along the line there is a baseline figure that is used to set all the relative prices.

Even though there is the supply and demand balancing system, we find that one person is getting anything from 10 to 100 times as much for the exact same article of work. Something like a haircut can take the same amount of time and use equal skill, but the price charged in different locations is miles apart. To justify it by taking the property prices and local costs of living does not make it fit. Clever economic practices are used to maintain the disparity. I said the exact same haircut, not a better one, nicer or more stylish. Same hands same result just a different price. These things do not continue in this way forever. Slowly but surely, there is an equalisation, dragging those that had an easy ride for a long time downwards, and lifting the rest up.