The cost of ‘at your service’

Well, this piece I’m writing, is about the train of thoughts which have just popped up into the existence of my mind. But I feel like, it has stuck inside for quite some time.

Let’s set up a premise. When you go eat at a high-end restaurant / similar entity, the price you pay also involves some service cost, which tangibly amounts to the premium service you received. The kind of service where if you pay enough, they will be obliged to put food directly into your mouth. And in some way this way of ‘service’ / this paradigm becomes the measuring scale of how much is something valued. And this doesn’t end there. The person doing that job is being paid exactly for that. The whole industry of such jobs exist now in every field and whole dynamics of something of having great value is attached to how greatly you are pampered in the name of ‘good service’.

What bothers me is... the normalization/acceptance/preference of such. That cost/price of something/experience also includes the component of extra comfort which intrinsically has no value, rather the value created by the ecosystem of promoting such behaviours.

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