It's like anything else quality cost more. I admit when we bought the kitchen trash can for the new home I was reluctant to spend $100. That said it has been well worth it. All the cheap ones we went thru the 14 years prior always let smells escape, the lids were always breaking or warping, a few of them cracked over time. The point is the cheap ones were cheap! It's well worth $100 just not to have to smell rotting garbage when you walk into the kitchen every morning for breakfast. Besides isn't a good trash can worth 20 cups from Starbucks?
I see where you are coming from. I guess to me I look at cost in relation to how much utility I get out of something over a period of time. The longer I get good use out of something the less expensive I perceive it to be. A $15 trash can that doesn't do its job for more than a year before it needs to really be replaced is what I consider expensive.
Another example is in 1984 I bought a skill saw for $125 when I could have easily bought one for$25. The $125 one lasted day-in day-out use til 2002. The new subcontractors who try to buy those tools like the $25 saw usually don't get more than a couple of months use out of them. So to me the $25 saw was less affordable.
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Another example is in 1984 I bought a skill saw for $125 when I could have easily bought one for$25. The $125 one lasted day-in day-out use til 2002. The new subcontractors who try to buy those tools like the $25 saw usually don't get more than a couple of months use out of them. So to me the $25 saw was less affordable.