{"id":1166,"date":"2010-03-16T02:03:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T09:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2010-03-16T04:11:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T11:11:30","slug":"spend-more-get-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/?p=1166","title":{"rendered":"Spend more, get less"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We as consumers have expectations on how things should work.  A microwave should heat up my food.  A brake pedal is designed to stop the car.  We buy things because they're meant to do something in particular. Manufacturers\/service providers thrive in this capitalist market, and owe their existence to generating value through their ability to address a need and fulfill it.  Of course there is that delicate balance between money and value, both horizontally and vertically through the supply chain.  Doesn't matter if you're a consumer buying from a retailer, or a wholesaler buying from a manufacturer.  Spend less, get less.  Spend more, get more.  Or that's how it's supposed to be.<\/p>\n<p>Technology needs to become more transparent.  The last thing anyone in the cube wants to worry about, is a supposed solution that only causes more problems.  Sometimes I feel like I'm stuck with 1988-era answers to 2010-era problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We as consumers have expectations on how things should work. A microwave should heat up my food. A brake pedal is designed to stop the car. We buy things because they're meant to do something in particular. Manufacturers\/service providers thrive in this capitalist market, and owe their existence to generating value through their ability to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hamster-wheel","category-nerdery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1171,"href":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions\/1171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}