I think that's apocryphal; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9961530 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9961530 suggests so anyway. The cause is probably t

I think that's apocryphal; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9961530 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9961530 suggests so anyway. The cause is probably the same; $1 is seen as an irrelevant amount of money by most people. Even so, you compare very different things, and the result is not terribly informative.