Some people around here have spent lots of money supporting the game development and then paying even more to change the colour of the pixels within the game. Nothing material to show for it.
I think your quote is a point of view that can be extended to anything
Thinking something and it being a fact; are two different things. There is value for money and there is monopoly controlled over pricing. Personally, if we are now talking F.D., then I believe that they offer good value for money. However: We are not talking about F.D., we are talking about the richest football clubs in the country and how did they get, so rich?
I own a Sony L3 mobile phone. It does nothing less than any i-phone, on the market and is a quarter of the price. Yes it may not be top spec, or take a tenth of a second longer to do its stuff; but that is basically it. The battery lasts longer, I can still make calls, send texts, take very good high quality photos, play games, etc. etc. and now I have saved enough to by 10 football shirts; if I wanted them.
As far as extending my point: That is up to whomever, wants to equate one thing with another. However: I am talking about monopolies controlling prices. Where you have to buy something, from just one place, or not at all. School uniforms, are another example. It is not good enough in the U.K. to send your kids to school in smart cloths of the right colour and style; they have to be the 'official uniforms' from the the only official suppliers, at five times the cost of the local supermarket. These are things, where the buyer, does not have choice. Like buying their kids a football strip, to show support for their team.
People just going out and spending stupid money, just because they want it and to show their peer groups, that they have and can afford it, is just dumb, one-upmanship. Which is what the manufactures and retailers, depend on.
More money than sense. A fool and his money are soon parted, are just two examples, of what I am saying. The yuppie era made greed good, buying the most expensive, the acceptable thing to do. It also caused the biggest financial crash in history.