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| MK14:
--- Quote from: langwadt on August 11, 2023, 04:38:50 pm --- --- Quote ---If someone goes to a very expensive part of London, it can cost quite a bit, for a restaurant meal. But if you go to a much cheaper area (different part of UK), it can cost a lot less, for what is in principal identical meals. --- End quote --- The restaurant's rent and cost of labor is probably quite different too .. --- End quote --- Very true. In that respect, it wasn't a very good example, on my part. --- Quote from: langwadt on August 11, 2023, 04:38:50 pm --- --- Quote ---I have mixed feelings on that. In some ways, it is sort of fair (people paying what they can afford), but also somewhat unfair, at the same time. --- End quote --- ignore the amount of money and see it as how minutes/hours someone has to work to pay that amount --- End quote --- That's also a good point. On the other hand, the very, very poor country, maybe should accept that their buying power, is a lot less effective, than the buying power, of a very, very wealthy country. So, some kind of difference between the hours/minutes work, needed for stuff, is therefore relatively acceptable. Otherwise, we would end up turning the entire world, into some kind of communist/socialist singularity. |
| langwadt:
--- Quote from: MK14 on August 11, 2023, 04:52:10 pm --- --- Quote from: langwadt on August 11, 2023, 04:38:50 pm --- --- Quote ---If someone goes to a very expensive part of London, it can cost quite a bit, for a restaurant meal. But if you go to a much cheaper area (different part of UK), it can cost a lot less, for what is in principal identical meals. --- End quote --- The restaurant's rent and cost of labor is probably quite different too .. --- End quote --- Very true. In that respect, it wasn't a very good example, on my part. --- Quote from: langwadt on August 11, 2023, 04:38:50 pm --- --- Quote ---I have mixed feelings on that. In some ways, it is sort of fair (people paying what they can afford), but also somewhat unfair, at the same time. --- End quote --- ignore the amount of money and see it as how minutes/hours someone has to work to pay that amount --- End quote --- That's also a good point. On the other hand, the very, very poor country, maybe should accept that their buying power, is a lot less effective, than the buying power, of a very, very wealthy country. So, some kind of difference between the hours/minutes work, needed for stuff, is therefore relatively acceptable. Otherwise, we would end up turning the entire world, into some kind of communist/socialist singularity. --- End quote --- google says average hourly wage in Ukraine is ~£2.80 if the price of YT premium was £13, more than half a days work, you are probably not going to sell any what people can and will pay for something, sets the price |
| AndyBeez:
As you say, it depends on what people can pay. Or at least, what 'utility' they place on what they are buying at a given price. Territory pricing strategies might seem a little asymmetric, but that's what happens when businesses are trying to increase a share in a country. Ukraine is not such a good example as their economy is screwed right now. Although they do have very fast internet, I hear. So what makes this 'service' any different from those from Netflix, Amazon Prime, Apple TV or even Bloomberg? Is there anything different, new or exclusive about the vlog content? Or is it just a marketing segmentation for tech bunnies with big pockets - and cheap electricity. Maybe we are looping back to the glory days when movies on Blue Ray cost far more than ordinary DVDs because, "you can watch Top Gun in full high definition on your brand new wall mounted plasma." Instead of watching in DVD or VHS bootleg quality on a cathode ray cube. Same movie, different television. 8) I HAVE A NEED FOR SPEED |
| MK14:
--- Quote from: langwadt on August 11, 2023, 05:12:45 pm ---google says average hourly wage in Ukraine is ~£2.80 if the price of YT premium was £13, more than half a days work, you are probably not going to sell any what people can and will pay for something, sets the price --- End quote --- I guess there is not a perfect answer, that would make everyone happy, all of the time. Some companies, would fix their prices (exchange rate and laws aside), to be exactly the same, regardless of which county was involved. Others, would change their prices, to reflect the needs of each individual country, just like the figures you just gave. I suspect, when it is an actual physical item, such as an aeroplane, which costs significant time, money and resources to manufacture. The prices would be much more similar. Possibly using things like significant variation in what features are and are not, included, probably would change though, which changes the overall price. E.g. Big expensive engines for rich countries, and smaller, less powerful, but cheaper engines, for less well-off countries, along with minimalistic feature sets, rather than a full set of pilot and navigation aids, which can add to the overall cost. |
| EEVblog:
--- Quote from: vad on August 11, 2023, 04:19:51 pm ---I assume the Australian price could be subsidized by taxpayers, but in Singapore they do not do that. --- End quote --- Yes, we have mostly subsidised medicine under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) https://www.pbs.gov.au/pbs/home I just picked on drug at random: https://www.pbs.gov.au/medicine/item/8300W $982 down to $30 Aspirin: https://www.pbs.gov.au/medicine/item/10590J-8202Q $15 down to $7.30 |
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