Mxsmanic wrote in
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Judah writes:

People spend similar amounts of money on cigarettes. I believe a plane
is more useful than cigarettes.

Not to heavy smokers.

Exactly - beauty is in the eyes of the beholder...

People spend less money on childbirth. I believe a child is more useful
than a car, a plane, or a cigarette.

Useful? I suppose if there are no child labor laws.

Again, beauty is in the eyes of the beholder...

But value is personal. And spending priorities even moreso. What you or
I think about how someone else should spend their money is irrelevant.

The problem is that people who don't share your preferences may find
them unacceptable or excessive. So it might not be a good idea to
advertise them.

No, the problem is that YOU don't share my preferences and find them
unacceptable or excessive. And you think that the rest of the world feels
the same way as you "because it's obvious" to you.

But the fact is that there are hundreds of millions of people in the US,
and perhaps 6 Billion in the world, and you have no idea what their
priorities are, or what they value.

Perhaps there are people out there who have dreamt about flying since they
were little boys or girls, but never heard of GA, and didn't know they
could just hop on over to the airport and learn to fly. Perhaps they were
never exposed to a story like the one in USA today.

Is that so far-fetched?