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<blockquote data-quote="GlaziusF" data-source="post: 4462641" data-attributes="member: 74166">The whole bit where you can talk about barbecuing burgers in your backyard and I understand what you mean kind of puts lie to this. If a McDonalds hamburger were really objectively better supermarkets wouldn't carry ground beef and hamburger buns since everybody would be going to McDonalds.A McDonalds hamburger is arguably less costly and definitely less time-consuming to make. Hence the name &quot;fast food&quot;. For some people the savings in money and time makes up for the drop in quality. For some it doesn't. New Basketball didn't cost any more than Old Basketball to watch. It may have taken less time on occasion. It was actually more physically demanding on the players, who pounded up and down the court much more frequently. Unlike the McDonalds hamburger there aren't any obvious factors which would explain the rise of New Basketball, other than it actually worked better than Old Basketball.&quot;People have reasons for what they do&quot; is never fallacious thinking. This is why the slow-food movement over in Italy is plunking down a dining table across the street from the new McDonalds and staffing it with an old Italian grandma with a big plate of pasta. They know people value their time highly enough to trade quality for it at McDonalds, so their argument is not &quot;you are making a dumb decision&quot; but &quot;why value time so highly?&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GlaziusF, post: 4462641, member: 74166"] The whole bit where you can talk about barbecuing burgers in your backyard and I understand what you mean kind of puts lie to this. If a McDonalds hamburger were really objectively better supermarkets wouldn't carry ground beef and hamburger buns since everybody would be going to McDonalds. A McDonalds hamburger is arguably less costly and definitely less time-consuming to make. Hence the name "fast food". For some people the savings in money and time makes up for the drop in quality. For some it doesn't. New Basketball didn't cost any more than Old Basketball to watch. It may have taken less time on occasion. It was actually more physically demanding on the players, who pounded up and down the court much more frequently. Unlike the McDonalds hamburger there aren't any obvious factors which would explain the rise of New Basketball, other than it actually worked better than Old Basketball. "People have reasons for what they do" is never fallacious thinking. This is why the slow-food movement over in Italy is plunking down a dining table across the street from the new McDonalds and staffing it with an old Italian grandma with a big plate of pasta. They know people value their time highly enough to trade quality for it at McDonalds, so their argument is not "you are making a dumb decision" but "why value time so highly?" [/QUOTE]

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