Having a low price, or one lower than the competition at least, seems like the easiest and safest option that sacrifices a little personal pride and finances for a smoother sailing in the marketing and sales department. It’s actually a sinister trap.
If someone offered you a useful new handbook, print edition, for 2$, would you be skeptical of its value? I know I most probably would. While Croatia was still classified as a “transitioning economy” we got free educational books from the Sabre Foundation. Every Saturday, a literal wagon-load of various handbooks, encyclopedias, etc. was Read more…
Stories, great flapping ribbons of shaped space-time, have been blowing and uncoiling around the universe since the beginning of time. And they have evolved. The weakest have died and the strongest have survived and they have grown fat on the retelling…stories, twisting and blowing through the darkness. Terry Pratchett, [Witches Abroad] Read more…
Once there lived a lazy giant. He was taught that easy tasks bring low pay, while hard tasks can be more lucrative. Knowing this, as well as his own lazy nature, he only ever did easy things like felling trees by leaning on them. His human colleagues got paid much Read more…