^True stories. It’s called cost benefit ratio, which many people not only don’t know how to analyze but don’t even understand the concept.
It’s seemingly very strange that 30+ years ago when I was in high school and even today, there was/is no practical economics class that just teaches young adults to use that 5the grade math they learned and some basic cognitive skills to determine best value in normal everyday financial decisions.
Plenty of people do analyze things but more than plenty don’t.