Yes of course, that is greed. I don't deny it. I also don't disagree that if one can find the exact thing one was looking for at a reduced price, then it is worth having. I think we may have our wires crossed slightly, for which I apologise. When you said about not paying full price for anything, you came across to me as one of those people we often see on television who claim to stand in high-street stores demanding a discount for cash or such, or to only buy something which has a reduction on it, even if the product is not quite what we needed it to be. I am realising now that this is probably not your modus operandi and for that I apologise.
I still can't agree that electrical products are too expensive because, as I said, I have never known them to cost less. But perhaps you are right, and that prices need to drop further to suit the modern consumer. I don't know. What I do know is that as a society we have become rather keen on the something-for-nothing attitude, whether this be our expected price of goods in shops or the idea that the country's benefit system is just one huge pot of cash. I am not pointing the finger, I am not blaming any one person or any one factor, all I am saying is that the idea that we may have to aspire to something or wait our turn and so on and so forth is almost becoming obsolete. As prices drop more, I worry where it will all end. The saying "A throw away society" is one we hear a good deal these days. I cannot help but think that if items cost us more, we'd be less likely to dispose of them so soon, assuming of course it was still possible to look after items and get them repaired as necessary, which it so often isn't.
Unlike yourself, I do have some money. It is one of the few things I do have and it is money I have inherited as a result of my father, who worked very hard, but insisted we went without, for most of our lives. My mother only got control of the money less than 18 months before her death, and it was completely wasted on her as she didn't get the chance to make use of it. It arrived too late. She made-do for all her life, she worked for most of it, not knowing how much her husband was hiding away. Having some money however, does not make me rich, because the things which I need now -like someone to help me with those tasks that I am struggling to manage through failing health- cannot be bought at any price. I have no family. The nearest is a step-daughter who is such as a result of a disastrous marriage I underwent rather late in life. She is a god-send to me, but I don't like to bother her as she lives a good distance away.
Anyway, the point I am making so very badly is that I don't go splashing my cash on material objects at any price, I think because I just don't know how to do so. What I have noticed is that I am much more keen on paying more for a good, reliable service. I don't mind paying for peoples time when they do jobs for me. In that respect I am lucky to be able to afford to do so; what is so hard is finding someone reliable and willing to work for people these days.
