Today I had the pleasure of making fresh coffee and eating rather cheap egg tarts. X said how much cheaper it is to buy the ingredients and make them yourself, compared to going to a restaurant to eat the same quality and portion of food. For better or for worse, we've assigned a value to the labour that goes into preparing food, and defined better tasting food to have labour that is worth more. Often much more, the range of the cost of the labour of preparing food is extremely extreme. It's one part greed and the other cost of materials (food, tools, kitchen, renovation) and when I recall a cafe I liked, now it has a counter in an expensive shopping mall, which I wonder how much profit they were making from one cup of coffee in order to do it. The same can apply to cello teaching. A teacher that produces more meritable results per unit time can demand a higher rate. Now that I think about it, anything that is agreed on to be better costs more. Based on personal experience received instead of actual time,actions, and cost of the space, cost of a human life.
This already pushes a philosophy that anyone that consistently gives a better experience is worth more, instead of anyone that works consistently in hours is worthy, for example. And this philosophy separates everyone into smarter and dumber, people that can do it and people that can't. It's assigned a monetary value and because of this system's standing, everyone is pushed from all angles to scheme, to imagine in their minds how to give a better experience, that others actually agree it is a better experience therefore worth more. Inequality in practical expression of an economic system in the name of our evolution and "great intelligence". So what is up with this opinion, all of us can agree it's opinion. In participating in alignment with this pseudo principle, an illusion made into reality, what are the consequences I am choosing in this participation? Anything I do will be compared to everyone else's work and be judged by money. Don't choose to define yourself to this price tag everyone agrees with because basically if you do, you're believing you're better than others and some are better than others; you'll be the walking advertisement for inequality which is another way to say greed and corruption. Instead, define yourself according to the original material, the Physical timelines and effort you invest into yourself.
Anything I do, it's going to have a price tag that doesn't change the reality of what needs to be done so I can do what I do. Starting point is important because according to that, no matter what your level, it defines how good or bad you are. In the context of a world that demands specific actions to be done consistently for you to be worth your own life, there's no shame in charging more as long as your head is clear and you know what you are here to do. It's kind of like Osho, a philosopher that invented services according to his philosophy with the added investigation and action of what will bring peace to the world. Action after a personally driven investigation where how you spend money is one of a few actions that have big consequences. Money is the quantification of all movement in this world. No message can exist without a human communicating the message in the context of his/her life being sustained by money. Think about that, money (you) giving a message to money (the system) to change how money (the economic system) is distributed. The way money pervades everything and every aspect of human existence. The way money is acting as how people are acting, money is a vicious, cruel God. Obviously you will be able to do less, you won't be able to do more if you act on your foresight, that makes your contribution real. Obviously you can do more if you fuck the rest, but that little more is like an illusion because it can't continue forever, there will be a time when you can't do that anymore.