"If you can save $10 by paying $5, and your argument for why you won't do it is that it costs too much, I'm going to tell you that you need a math course." It'

"If you can save $10 by paying $5, and your argument for why you won't do it is that it costs too much, I'm going to tell you that you need a math course." It's not simple math though, it's politics and projections from people with an agenda. If you tell me I can save $10 by paying $5, it's my responsibility to decide if you're lying to me, to question your assumptions, etc. Maybe it costs $8 to save $10, but I give up significant other rights/options/etc. TLDR, it's not just math, and the math isn't that simple.