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[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 65 points 2 days ago (3 children)

depends if the price change is above or below inflation.

if prices rise quicker than inflation you get less value for money

[–] Paper_Phrog@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This, and the measurement of the perception of "value" needs to be taken into account.

[–] Reyali@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’ve been taught:

Value = Benefits received / Costs incurred

Costs can be price, time, energy, etc.

Benefits can be a physical product, an experience, a feature, or less tangible like peace of mind or security.

If you increase price, other costs must go down OR benefits must go up; otherwise value is lost.

And yes, it’s all perception. Benefits don’t affect all customers equally, and people place different value on their time, etc.

Your comment is spot on. I have just found this equation consistently holds up.

[–] Paper_Phrog@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Not to nit pick, but that is basically a variation of ROI. Return on investment, or very similar at least.

Value is not necessarily a formula but a metric. Exactly what you described as benefits. I think that is the practically the same since perception of value is based on the benefits. And it is indeed all subjective perception.

To make it even more interesting, perceived value could be totally manipulated up while actual received (quantified) value goes down. That's marketing. ;)

But yes, fun to theorize on this! :)

[–] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not entirely, as the amount of content you receive changes, too. It is hard to accurately measure “value”, but it is another factor besides just the economical performance.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Though changing content goes both ways. Just this past week I was looking at the new releases on Netflix and saw they had added a new season of Harley Quinn and checked the info to see if it was the 3rd like I remembered and it seems that they simultaneously removed the earlier seasons.

And in general, I think there have been more good things lost than added, not to mention the way Netflix writes shows for people who aren't paying attention is annoying as someone who does. Fuck off with repeating all the relevant information every single time it comes up.

[–] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Absolutely, if content gets removed, the value most likely lowers for any given client.

Netflix just follows the cash flow. Beautiful capitalism inside the art business — kinda ironic.

[–] lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

This comment isn’t addressing the “digital shinkflation either.

It’s not like the price change means you get the same service - most of the time they make it shittier