Generally speaking higher costs are probably a good thing. It depends on what you value. If all we cared about were lower costs we would enslave people and make

Generally speaking higher costs are probably a good thing. It depends on what you value. If all we cared about were lower costs we would enslave people and make them make things cheaper and we would pollute the environment without any consideration. Conversely we may have more expensive products but be able to avoid or minimize some of these awful things.