Perhaps if you took into account you costs incurred for riding the bus and time spent commuting, actual costs would equalize, or perhaps living in the city would be even cheaper. Don't get caught over-emphasizing upfront costs, or you'll get burned by the hidden ones. Opportunity cost is all too important of a concept to ignore.
I think "magic" is a marketing term for "marketing".....
Theres a reason companies invest large sums of money in advertising and brand recognition, it's because it works. The iPad will outsell every netbook out there. Probably combined... In comparisons, keep in mind a netbook is a tool, an iPad is a toy, so which one is your kid going to want?
You also must take into account if companies will profit from said research. In the early 90s, scientests made significant headway in finding a cure for type 1 diabetes. But what pharmaceutical company trying to make money is going to pay for a cure to be found, thus enough funding was not put forth. It doesn't make sense ($$) for them to sell a drug to a person once, when they could be selling them drugs for an entire lifetime.
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Perhaps if you took into account you costs incurred for riding the bus and time spent commuting, actual costs would equalize, or perhaps living in the city would be even cheaper. Don't get caught over-emphasizing upfront costs, or you'll get burned by the hidden ones. Opportunity cost is all too important of a concept to ignore.
If you find this concept quaint then why are vinyl sales slowly rising?
Hipsters.
While it may not be official, I guarantee this already happens. At all levels of politics. But perhaps not quite as bipartisian as you would like.
I think "magic" is a marketing term for "marketing"..... Theres a reason companies invest large sums of money in advertising and brand recognition, it's because it works. The iPad will outsell every netbook out there. Probably combined... In comparisons, keep in mind a netbook is a tool, an iPad is a toy, so which one is your kid going to want?
You also must take into account if companies will profit from said research. In the early 90s, scientests made significant headway in finding a cure for type 1 diabetes. But what pharmaceutical company trying to make money is going to pay for a cure to be found, thus enough funding was not put forth. It doesn't make sense ($$) for them to sell a drug to a person once, when they could be selling them drugs for an entire lifetime.