Cheap common goods can be more essential than expensive ones
Evidence
At last, desperate, the king understood what his youngest daughter had meant: that salt, cheap and common as it is, is more truly precious than gold, because without it nothing has savor and life itself grows joyless — and that her love, compared to salt, was the deepest and truest love of all, the kind you do not notice until it is gone. — , A Year of World Stories, 13905
Categorization
- XREF: A clean motif restatement of King Lear’s ‘nothing’ scene and of scarcity-bias thinking about value.