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It's a good thing the market decides the price of a good technical writer
and not the shopkeeper. I guess the shopkeeper doesn't realize the price he
could be getting for the monkeys he just sold.
Besides, he's undercutting the market by selling his monkeys for so cheap
and soon he'll be out of business if he continues to do so (the overhead on
a monkey shop's gotta be pretty high, don't you think?).
The shopkeeper's got it half right, he realizes skills are worth something
more than a title. In terms of business sense and an eye for value though,
he sounds like little more than an idiot to me. Because the truth is, the
two Monkeys he just sold are both worth 50,000.00 and more.
That the story has a tourist making the comment: "Most of them are only a
few hundred dollars" is appropriate. Tourists like to visit a place that's
totally foreign to them for maybe a week or two. They always look out of
place. You know the saying: "you can always spot a tourist". Lots of them
think they are an authority on the place they're briefly visiting. Lots of
them make unfounded comments about the "novel" things they come across in
this totally foreign place as though they were suddenly an authority on
them. Yes, the tourist in a Monkey shop is an appropriate analogy.
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