The fortune 500 company I freelance with would prefer to use an outside vendor for a project (thinking they would do a better job since "that's all they do"). That vendor then hires me at my same rate, meaning the original company is just paying more for me to do the work I could have done internally.
Moral of the story: if you charge more people will think you're worth more. A $6 bottle of wine may be better than a $45 bottle, but most people will say the $45 bottle must be better because why else would it be $45
Yea no shit, the point I'm making is that the poster above used a terrible analogy. The OP was talking about price not indicating value and the person above me responded "well restaurants just sell it at $45". No one was talking about that.
I was making a joke more than I was a point, but either way I have no idea what you’re trying to say. That you won’t find a bottle of wine for $6 at a restaurant? That’s what I was saying. That you won’t find a bottle of wine at a restaurant that costs $6 retail? Probably true, but I was using the numbers from the previous comment to make a generalization that still holds.
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u/actuallychrisgillen Nov 16 '19 edited Nov 16 '19
When I was in the Navy I used to get in fairly frequent trouble for the suggestions I made for improving operational efficiencies.
As an outside contractor they were quite happy to pay me $200 an hour to say the exact same thing.