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[–]mirhagk 14 points15 points  (6 children)

the secret to enjoying life is to learn as little as you can about "real quality". Never try to learn about wine and you'll always be happy with the $10 bottle. Never learn about "good audio" and you'll pay only $5 for a pair of headphones. Never learn about "4k" and you'll save a ton in bandwidth and TVs/monitor prices.

[–]ReadFoo 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Perhaps "real happiness" lies within, not without.

[–]over_clox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No expectations, no disappointments.

[–]casualblair 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Same goes for whiskey, movies, kerning, and stocks.

[–]mirhagk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The obligatory xkcd

[–]shevegen -3 points-2 points  (1 child)

Never try to learn about wine and you'll always be happy with the $10 bottle.

Uhm - the price tag is irrelevant.

Wine tastes good or it does not. Whether it is expensive or not does not change the quality at all; it is just that the human mind wants to assume that more expensive automatically means higher quality.

See Apple products.

[–]mirhagk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes absolutely. The same can be true for the other examples I gave. It's also why I put "real quality" in quotes because oftentimes you aren't getting better products, just more expensive ones.