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text from Terry Pratchett; art by Higgs who's tumblr i've linked
i can't rember which book this is from -- i wanna say it's Men at Arms but it could even be Guards Guards. Higgs seems to think it's Night Watch, but I'm pretty sure it happened before that...
in the post here
It depends. Some of the expensive stuff really is high quality, but yes a lot of that is equally trash and just being spent because they can. Honestly though for a lot of products as long as you don't go for the cheapest of cheap, they will be more than good enough for most.