why do people feel the need to buy expensive cable

Here now is clearthink using this forum to flaunt his economic status (as he sees it) and making assumptions about mine which, besides being none of his business, are wrong.  

The value concept applies regardless of the consumer....it is not about the consumer about the product.  It is a simple concept and need not be debated.  Unless debate is your only pastime.

"Here now is clearthink using this forum to flaunt his economic status (as he sees it) and making assumptions about mine which, besides being none of his business, are wrong.The value concept applies regardless of the consumer....it is not about the consumer about the product. It is a simple concept and need not be debated. Unless debate is your only pastime"
Dynaquest you are the master of debate in this forum you are always debating and then you try to end the conversation with an insult such as this if you read what I wrote I said NOTHING repeat NOTHING about my economic status and only explained the flaws in your reasoning about how to arrive at a meaningful "equation" to calculate the value of a consumer product which you naively insist is a equation that you can apply equally all of the time to all consumers in the actual marketplace of all real consumer items which of course ignores a large body of knowledge of established and researched economic and consumer theory and science of course you are free to believe that you have this apparently "universal rules" for your "universal equations" but you are simply wrong but I can understand your frustration in trying to justify your opinion and had you claimed it was only your opinion we would not have this discussion but instead you insist science and reason are on your side and it should be patently obvious to most that you are mistaken again remember that 69% of you Americans cannot afford a $1000USD car repair!

Establishing value is a subjective exercise. The only exception to this is when you're valuing a true commodity such as oil, natural gas, or gold. That's part of what makes those items a commodity.

Consider that many people think spending $2,000 on a disc player is absurd. Some people think spending $200 on a disc player is absurd. Some people think spending any amount on a disc player is absurd when streaming is an option. None of them are mistaken.

I’m slowly coming to another opinion on what forums are. It was obvious before but never so plainly as it is in some instances like this.

It appears to be about trying to get people to understand how informed logic works.