Not everything is a market commodity, and assuming it is is not intelligent behaviour.
Unit price is not a useful metric for assessing social and cultural value - and I don't mean value in some abstract classical-is-better-than-pop sense, but in terms of (e.g.) the quantifiable social benefits of culture, including improved mental and social health, improved cognitive skills from arts training and practice, and so on.
So it's not just about investment of effort, it's the fact that reducing everything to commodity pricing misses out a huge amount of relevant information about value.
Not everything is a market commodity, and assuming it is is not intelligent behaviour.
Unit price is not a useful metric for assessing social and cultural value - and I don't mean value in some abstract classical-is-better-than-pop sense, but in terms of (e.g.) the quantifiable social benefits of culture, including improved mental and social health, improved cognitive skills from arts training and practice, and so on.
So it's not just about investment of effort, it's the fact that reducing everything to commodity pricing misses out a huge amount of relevant information about value.