5 years later
So two unrelated things happened today: One. While packing the food away that I cooked for breakfast, Lea said that she was fine with buying food at the canteen because it was cheap. I said, well the food here is free. Of course there are other factors involved why it's actually better to buy the one at the canteen. One being that the food there would still be warm by lunch time and there would be more choices there. But given two options which one should we prefer, something that is cheap or something that is free? Something is cheap probably because the quality of the ingredients is much lower. There's also a possibility that shortcuts were made in order to reach that low price. In other words, compromises were made. When something is free, by the same logic, it can seem like it must be worse. Why? Because if one is willing to give something for free then maybe the item is not just deficient, there must be something wrong with it. Well, that's the case if the one giving i