What is the real cost of free?
Every free product has a price. Your data, your attention, your time. The transaction is invisible, but the ledger is not.
Why does a diamond cost more than water?
The paradox of value: what sustains life is cheap, what decorates it is priceless. Scarcity is a story we tell ourselves.
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Can you put a price on privacy?
Tech companies did. $7.37 per user per quarter. That is what your secrets are worth on the open market.
Is expensive always better?
The $200 wine tastes identical in blind tests. The label is the product. Perception is the price markup.
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Who decides what art is worth?
A banana duct-taped to a wall: $120,000. The artist ate it. The buyer was satisfied. Value is consensus hallucination.
What do you value most?
Not what you say. What you spend time, money, and energy on. Your calendar is your value statement.