''Óriginal parts'', ''identity '' and ''retip'' conundrum
The ''identity enigma'' is easy to explain with ''ownership''. Not everyone is familiar with logic or philosophy but everyone owns something or other.
Ownership assume ''one to one relation'' between an person (legal
bodies included) and one object of ownership. Think of question how
you can prove to own some object. You can also think about question
how to prove to be owner of, say an part of your stolen car.
What the ''force'' of the expression ''original'' is , is an enigma.
However Americans are typical example of people who are very
fond of ''original parts'' and willing to pay huge amount of money
for the ''precious'' (grin). By the so called ''retips'' the assumption
is also ''original'' versus ''not original parts''. This means that
every manufacturer as well ''retiper'' uses his own styli and or
cantilevers. The fact however is that they all buy those ''parts''
by either by Namiki or Ogura. So, logicaly speaking, the origin
of those ''parts'' are either Namiki or Ogura. Is gluing an cantilever/
stylus combo in the ''joint pipe'' rocket science?
Your grandfather sounds like he was a very tolerant and forgiving man, in the circumstances. What an exceptionally dumb horse, though - perhaps it thought it was clever in enduring all those incentives simply to avoid the easy and common sense solution to occasionally trotting off to market. |
By definition, basic cost benefit analysis is a process of examining a variety of combinations and scenarios where there are costs and associated benefits. This can be accounting. The total benefits outweigh the total costs. However - What is the extra benefit (utility) you obtain from spending an extra amount of money given a menu of combinations? This is economics and the process becomes rather more nuanced, but we usually all become so good at it that it becomes intuitive. Note - I say extra. Should it be positive amount, it is a trade that you may decide upon. Because audiophiles are decisive folk. It may be a negative number, like when you have just bought a wonderful CD collection and you then you buy anything by Adele. I digress. Budget only becomes meaningful when it is a constraint and the possible combinations are thereby limited. @dover was not incorrect. |
