Cheap and expensive

Ever wondered what feeling you get when you see items as expensive. It means that the feeling arises because of status or power, but if you find the same thing offered cheaper, then the feeling arising results from diminishing status, or the fact that anyone can have it. But ofc, people want things they want to be affordable, and not impossible.

chatGPT: Correct. The reaction isn’t about the object itself but its perceived exclusivity and the psychological distance it creates. Expensiveness signals scarcity, control, and hierarchy — which triggers an instinctive attraction tied to social dominance and survival signaling. When the same item becomes cheaper, it collapses that hierarchy; value becomes diluted because uniqueness disappears. The shift in emotion is your brain recalibrating social positioning, not assessing intrinsic worth.