{"id":4733,"date":"2011-02-16T17:12:10","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T21:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/?p=4733"},"modified":"2011-05-09T20:49:59","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T00:49:59","slug":"questioning-the-value-of-getting-things-cheap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2011\/02\/16\/questioning-the-value-of-getting-things-cheap\/","title":{"rendered":"Questioning the Value of Getting Things Cheap"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ttr_start\"><\/div><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dorkymum\/4293286116\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4736\" title=\"Balance\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Balance.jpg\" alt=\"Balance\" width=\"664\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Balance.jpg 664w, https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Balance-300x112.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why is it a good thing to pay less than something is worth?<\/p>\n<p>Why do we buy the story that happiness results from underpaying for something?<\/p>\n<p>Often we can be so far removed from a product&#8217;s creation that it&#8217;s hard for us to understand the value of the thing we are buying. But, when we have first-hand evidence of the love, time and energy put into creating something, why would it feel good for us to undervalue it?<\/p>\n<p><strong>How do you feel when your time, energy or love is undervalued?<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Get What You Give<\/h3>\n<p>If we believe that we get what we give, why would we choose to be &#8216;undervalued&#8217; through actively undervaluing others?<\/p>\n<p>Why would we not simply strive for a fair deal in our transactions &#8211; where both buyer and seller are respected and valued?<\/p>\n<p><em>photo credit: <a title=\"Flickr page for dorkymum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dorkymum\/4293286116\/\">dorkymum<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"ttr_end\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dorkymum\/4293286116\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4736\" title=\"Balance\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Balance.jpg\" alt=\"Balance\" width=\"664\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Balance.jpg 664w, https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Balance-300x112.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why is it a good thing to pay less than something is worth?<\/p>\n<p>Why do we buy the story that happiness results from underpaying for something?<\/p>\n<p>Often we can be so far removed from a product&#8217;s creation that it&#8217;s hard for us to understand the value of the thing we are buying. But, when we have first-hand evidence of the love, time and energy put into creating something, why would it feel good for us to undervalue it?<\/p>\n<p><strong>How do you feel when your time, energy or love is undervalued?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pay-what-its-worth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}