| "First nice =! expensive. It's a subjective term meant to allow you to find your own definition." The words 'cheap' and 'expensive' appeared 6 times in the article. I guess cheap can be used metaphorically but generally they are used to describe specifically the cost of the item. So I'm really not clear what point you are making. At no point did I confuse the concepts of 'nice' and 'expensive'. "The point of that advice is that prevention [...] and taking care of your long-term health is a far better option than waiting until something breaks." No, the point made was that prevention is orders of magnitude cheaper. It's you that seems to be confusing cost with a more subjective 'better'. As for your mild_snark remark, all I can say is you've clearly not read my comments in this thread. The topic of the question was: "life lessons [that] are unintuitive or go against common sense or wisdom" 'prevention is better than waiting until something breaks', 'spend money on a good bed', are these really unintuitive? Do they go against common-sense? As a hypothetical example, I would consider a good response to this question would be a well-cited example of how in fact a really cheap bed made out cardboard in fact gave the best nights sleep, or how actually it's a lot cheaper to ignore diet and deal with it later. |