like this classic… 
We have determined that this 1980 classic has the same value as this two piece lounge suite, currently on sale at The Brick in Calgary for $1699 plus GST, children not included.So how did we come up with this value? Indeed who determined that a can of Coca-Cola has the same value as a basic calculator with a solar panel?
Why is a woollen sweater worth the same as a meal cooked for you by someone?
And it always amazes me how cheap goods like mousetraps are. For whatever they cost… thirty… forty… ninety cents each there are many people making money – the retailer, the freight company, the manufacturing company, and the worker who put it all together, not to mention the companies who supplied the raw materials!
Then on the other hand, you go out for a nice meal and have a beer or a glass of wine, and suddenly the bill for two people is $100. One hundred dollars to feed two people once, seems extravagant when you compare that to what a mousetrap builder earns.
Looking at a different extreme, how can an average school teacher earn sixty times less than the average major league baseballer? I’m not going to go on a communist rant about everyone getting paid equally. Hell, if someone wants to pay a steriod junkie $3 million to play catch, all the power to them.
It seems as though there’s an apparent inequality in the way the world is paid for services, but it’s obvious that if you want to get paid more, you work in a field that is televised or sponsored by corporations, since mass media advertising pays the big bills.
Yes, when our children, and indeed many adults worship attractive women with dysfunctional relationships, or young men with excellent hand-eye co-ordination and a long criminal record, you know that we’ve got our heads screwed on straight!
Yup. Sometimes I think that it’s a funny world we live in.
