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In article <1989Mar28.041030.2291@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> kocic@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Miroslav Kocic) writes:
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>[...] if history teaches
>anything, it teaches that every benefit has a proportional price.

Actually, history teaches no such thing.  Benefits and prices of any given
discovery or invention don't correlate.  Those with prices up to their
benefits tend to be developed and used (unless something cheaper does the
job as well or better).  Those with excessive prices are discarded.  This
creates the illusion of proportional cost.

Once this illusion is set in your mind, everything new with improved price/
performance makes you think "there's got to be a catch", and sends you on
a search to find the catch.  If you can't accept the lack of a catch, you 
can never end your search, and can never go beyond what had been done before.

This is not to say such a search is folly.  Many things DO have catches,
and these need to be discovered.  But be prepared to acknowledge real wonders
now and then.