An idea from Walden

“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it.” A Concord house cost about 800 dollars. At a dollar a day, a laborer needed 10 to 15 years to save it, more than half his life.

From Walden by Henry David Thoreau

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