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Wrong. It's a $250 microscope. Any other cost is culturally imposed. Values are not objects.
by WhyKill 7y ago
Wrong. It's a $250 microscope. Any other cost is culturally imposed. Values are not objects.
- jandrese 7y agoTime isn't free.
- jdironman 7y agoIt is given to us freely everyday without asking. What we do with it determines its value.
- jessaustin 7y agoIf you create powerful microscopes with that time, what value would be determined?
- jdironman 7y agoI think everyone has 3 numbers. A number that they will not go below, a number that two parties can agree on for a transaction, and a number which they would be extremely happy with (with no upper limit obviously). No different than negotiating a salary / contract which is what it is. I think when someone designs something with the intent to sell it however, that cost of research and development gets baked into the expected returns on the volume of sales. Its like an artist who sells originals versus an artist who sells copies of artwork, if that makes sense.
- jandrese 7y agoEvery hour costs us one hour of our lives.
- dekhn 7y agomicroscopes (hand-built ones like this) require a great deal of additional manual labor on top of assembly. It's not culturally imposed- you need to master a ton of important and complicated optical stuff before this device works well.
- dang 7y agoPlease don't take HN threads on generic ideological tangents. Those are less interesting than whatever they tangent off from. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20305597 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20305597 and marked it off-topic.