The most significant and memorable part of the
first chapter was the one, where the author focused on the different prices
that you pay for the same service. For example, flying ticket costs someone
less than the other one, even though they fly to the same location, obtain the
same cashews and use the same services.
Or there´s another example that compares the prices
you pay for the dog drugs and human drugs. Drugs for the dogs are cheaper than
the same ones that are provided to humans, just because of the price
discrimination. It´s based on the idea which says that I am willing to pay
bigger cost for the same drug, because I evaluate my life more, therefore the
pharmacy companies use this opportunity and charge me more expansive and
irrational price.
Why is this fact disturbing and sad? Because it is
sick. How can we charge the drugs for humans more expensive than the drugs for
our pets? It´s sad to imagine those who don´t have money and need treatment –
they get healthy harder than their pets.
The author truly remarks, that if we wanted to control
the market and set stable, equal and fair prices, it wouldn´t be called free
market anymore. It would be a system based on oppression; therefore we must also
deal with the sad reality that comes with some aspects of the free market.
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