Author: Dennis

Dissociation of Price and Quality

by Dennis••7•Posted inJournal

Nine out of ten times when I claim that something is of poor quality, people will try to point out that the product was also not very expensive. People always go for the compromise, and the “bang for your buck,” which I think is kind of stupid. Why? I’m glad you asked;

Remember when you first were taught divisions in school, and they teach you that bullshit line about how you can’t divide a number by zero? Well, that’s as bullshit as that rule is, you can divide by zero, but the result will always be infinity. Don’t believe me? Well, take any number, and divide it by ten, then divide that same number by nine, then by 8, then by seven, etc. Do that until you reach one, then divide it by 0.9, then 0.8, 0.7, 0.6, 0.5, etc. The smaller the number becomes that you’re dividing by, the bigger the result. The more you approach zero, the more the result approaches infitiy.

Now, to get back to my point; when something is free, no matter what the quality is, or however you decide the quanity quality, the “bang for your buck” is always infinity, because the quality per buck spent = quality / money spent, which is to say X / 0 = infinity. So, if someone were to give me a old, beat up, Vauxhall Asma for free, the bang for my buck will be infinity, just like if someone were to give me a Lotus Elise 190e Sport for free.

And that, my friends, is a load of wank. Anyone who wants to sell me that line of nonesense, no matter how true it is, will get: “What don’t you pull the other one, mate, that one’s got bells on it.”