The difference on how we respect things that are paid for, rather than given to us for free.

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The problem with free education.

H, I'm Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

I'm not going to get political or philosophical with you on this question. But it's an idea that can affect you and your business and how you view raising prices and things of that sort.

It came to me from reading the book Thinking Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. And in it, he actually has a section in there. So this book goes back to it. 37 is when it was first published, and I'm reading the original version of it.

He discusses in there that there's a reason why college education is so valued on many levels, and back then even more so than it is now.

He said that the one he can really pin it down to is that all the education up to a certain point is publicly funded, it's free. There's something about people that if something is free, they are not going to value it as much.

So having a high school education is not all that valuable. For one thing, it's very common, most people have a high school education or an equivalent to it.

But also, it's just not seen as highly recognized as a college education. And the more expensive college gets, the more valuable it is seen in many cases.

It's kind of strange where we are at in the United States right now. Because right now you kind of have a lesser view of college education, while at the same time, they're getting charged more and more.

So it doesn't fit the dichotomy exactly, but if you look over time spread out over time, going back to 1937. And beyond, that, when you've got free education, free is not valued as much as something that's worth more.

Now, the easier it is to get that thing, even if it's worth more if it's easy to get, that's also an issue and it reduces the value of what it is.

So a lot of people have said, Hey, why don't we, you know, just forgive all the college debt, right? You can forgive all the college debt, what if we just made it to where the federal government pays for college, like everyone, everyone gets a four-year degree, why not just everybody gets a four-year degree.

If you do that, you would highly, highly, highly discount the value that college brings. Everyone who is getting more, you're seeing the same situation happening in inflation. If more people have more money, what it doesn't mean that they have more money, it they have more paper have less value.

If you take something of value, and you spread it out all over and make it common, it becomes less valuable, is psychology here. But it's also kind of the laws of the marketplace.

So if you have any form of marketplace free marketplace whatsoever, involved at all, this is going to occur, there's no way to create equal full equalization across the board because the value is perceived in the fact that is it is unequal. Something is valuable when it's less common.

As soon as you make something fully common, it's less valuable. It's a weird thing, it's a weird thing to think about. But when you pull it back to your business, in terms of your business, if you have a lot of something and you are giving it away, people are going to value it less than something that you have a little bit of that you're charging more for. Right, it's the same I could be the same item.

If I took my book and all these things don't have to it doesn't mean you shouldn'...