Re: The insane progress nobody is talking about

On Wed, 19 Jun 2024 19:23:21 -0600, John Savard
<quadibloc@servername.invalid> wrote:

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?

Or they realize that the promised savings will never be recovered,
except in the "you would have paid more with the others" sense. This,
of course, is why I buy them so that I won't have to change them as
often. Convenience outweighs cost, at least for me, at least to some
extent.

Kind of like Rapid Transit, which promises that, in 30 years, there
will be 30% fewer cars on the road /than there would be without it/,
not 30% fewer than there are today.

It is the difference between "amelioration" and "solution".
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Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"