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Now we know how much it costs to make a $2,800 Dior bag (www.businessinsider.com)

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Its like that old example of "A graphic designer has a meeting with a CEO to design a new company logo, in 2 hours they are finished and the designer gives the CEO a bill for $4000. The CEO explodes "I'm not paying $4000 for 2 hours work" the designer responds "You arent, your paying for the decade of experience that allows me to do it in 2 hours."

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

my favorite is the factory analogy. giant machine the size of a football field breaks, will not run. they call in the engineering expert who spends 2 hours eyeballing the machine, when he takes out a tiny screwdriver and turns a single screw counterclockwise 1 turn. the machine bursts to life.

he hands the factory owner a bill for 10,000$.

the factory owner says 'thats preposterous, im not paying that for one turn of a screw'

the engineer scribbles on the paper;

tuning screw 1.00$ knowing which screw to turn 9,999.00$

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

I had this happen IRL, when my friend was helping do some super tasks in his small apt building to get a reduction in his condo fees. The boiler needed to be reset for some reason I can't remember, so he headed down and pushed the obvious buttons that seemed to be for turning it off and on. About 30 minutes later it seemed like the apartment was getting colder and he got some calls from other people in the building. This was in the middle of a pretty cold winter, so a boiler guy had to be called to come out. It was probably 8 or 9 PM, so I'm sure he was charging some exorbitant rates to be there, and once he arrived he went around the side and pushed a tiny unmarked metal slide in and out once, which fixed the problem.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I'd heard this as a plumber who knocked a pipe with a spanner.