[Ansteorra] The Cost of Time

[Colin MacNachtan]

On Thursday 23 July 2009, Stephanie Smith wrote:
> Just when I dismiss the Knights as cloddish stick jockeys, one astounds me.
> Sir JP is right, people do tend to discount the labor involved in the
> things we make.  It is all well and good to look at something and say, "I
> can make that.  Why should I pay $X for it?"  Well, because you DIDN'T make
> it.  You don't have time to make it even though you know how to do it.
>  Sometimes the smallest things, the ones everyone goes, "Oh, that is just a
> pendant" are the hardest to make.  If priced fairly, to account for the
> degree of difficulty as well as the time and materials, no one could
> possibly afford them.  Remember that next time you dismiss the work of an
> artisan in a merchan'ts booth as "something I could do."  Particularly
> within their hearing.

One of the best signs I've seen was at a booth at (I think) Pennsic that said 
"Yes, you could make this stuff.  But you know you won't."

Colin MacNachtan