You contradict yourself. You are saying these things are cheap but people can't afford them because they aren't paid enough...
@DB Therein lies the problem. We ALL have different definitions,depending on how and where we grew up,where we have worked,and how much it costs us to live our normal lives today. There are places you can buy a house and small lot for 50k,or even less. There are also other places where 50k isn't even a down payment for a small apartment.
"Cheap" and "expensive" are relative words.
I remember being stunned while watching "the price is right" on teebee back in the 60's,and one woman who seemed to be in her early 30's guessed the price of a new Thunderbird to be "50 THOUSAND DOLLARS!" at the showcase. I almost lost my breath when it occurred to me she actually meant it. At MOST,a fully-equipped T-Bird back then was maybe 6 grand. This wasn't a stupid woman,either. Dressed nicely,and was well-spoken and seemed to be bright.
Right away I figured out she was a Trust Fund Child and had no idea what anything cost. Later on I figured out she might have been from somewhere like Manhattan,where most people live in apartments and take taxi's or buses to work or play because it's cheaper and more practical than owning a car. People like Bawa Walters,who has never driven a car in her life if you eliminate the Texaco commercial she was in back in the 60's,that show this "news woman" telling everyone about how she would never consider using any other gas than Texaco in her convertible,and then putting the car in gear and seeming to drive away. She later confessed she didn't even know how to put the car into gear until she was shown,and that she only drove a few feet and then stopped. Hey! If you can't trust a woman like that to tell you the truth in the news,who CAN you trust?
Good thing she had "Uncle Walter" sitting in the CBS News "command chair",ain't it? The SOB that lied about Tet of 68 on-air,and KNEW he was lying,but lied to try to prevent a Republican President from looking like he had a victory against the North Vietnamese after nothing but failure after failure by the Kennedy Klan.
I still refuse to watch CBS News.