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this post was submitted on 31 Jul 2026
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If you pay pocket change for tools, you get shitty tools. If you buy cheap toys, they'll break within a couple of days. You get what you pay for, and employment is a business transaction where I'm selling my knowledge and time. If the employer doesn't want to pay, he'll get the budget version of both.
That's why understanding the difference between "cheap" and "inexpensive" is important.
The German word Preiswert is great for this, means ‘worth the price’ As opposed to billig - cheap.
I think the equivalent in Norwegian would be "prisgunstig" and "billig"