Of course, the sad thing is that the workers who sew designer clothing are probably not paid much more than those who make clothes for Old Navy.
Zoe: Jayne. This is something the Captain has to do for himself. Mal: No! No, it's not!
'War Stories'
Natter .44 Magnum: Do You Feel Chatty, Punk?
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Gudanov - Apr 11, 2006 9:23:57 am PDT #247 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping
§ ita § - Apr 11, 2006 9:24:20 am PDT #248 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
there's an awful lot of margin in the sandwich, too. Japanese beef is expensive partially because of the overhead.
That's not margin. Price of sandwich=cost of making sandwich+margin. I have to pay a gazillion dollars for the beef--and the things you describe about the cost of beef isn't even margin for the beef supplier. It's the costs of producing that beef.
Betsy HP - Apr 11, 2006 9:24:53 am PDT #249 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
If you just want excellent beef without the legend, buy American wagyu. (Which isn't easy to find.)
Jesse - Apr 11, 2006 9:25:13 am PDT #250 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'm pretty sure you don't, which makes paying extra to eat out of a gold-plated bowl seem pretty frivolous.
Yeah, that's nuts.
Not that I wouldn't do it if someone else paid, but I could probably buy my own gold-plated bowl and put my own sundae in it for much less than Serendipity's charging.
Word.
Gudanov - Apr 11, 2006 9:25:22 am PDT #251 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping
Gawker or someone had a bit when NYC got rid of the sales tax on clothes under $110, but they were like "Who buys jeans cheaper than $110?"
This person lives in a competely different world than I do.
tommyrot - Apr 11, 2006 9:26:01 am PDT #252 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Margin is basicly the per-item profit (not counting overhead).
Sean K - Apr 11, 2006 9:26:28 am PDT #253 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Gawker or someone had a bit when NYC got rid of the sales tax on clothes under $110, but they were like "Who buys jeans cheaper than $110?"
This person lives in a competely different world than I do.
Seriously. I dislike paying more than $50 for jeans.
Jesse - Apr 11, 2006 9:26:39 am PDT #254 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
This person lives in a competely different world than I do.
They live in a completely different world than I do, and I'm only like 5 miles away!
§ ita § - Apr 11, 2006 9:27:23 am PDT #255 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Margin is basicly the per-item profit (not counting overhead).
I didn't convey that accurately? It's what I meant to say, anyway.
eta:
They live in a completely different world than I do, and I'm only like 5 miles away!
I think they live in my world, and I'm just cheap.
Jessica - Apr 11, 2006 9:27:38 am PDT #256 of 10002
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
With the $10K martini, you do get to keep the ice.
Heh. There's a place on the UES that serves espresso martinis with espresso beans in the bottom of the glass (I'm sure they're not the only ones, but they're the ones in this story). The waitress must have told me at least 3 times to be extra-careful drinking it, lest I choke on a bean.
[Point being, I suppose, that I've had practice not swallowing things at the bottom of martinis, so someone should buy me the $10k one. As a present.]