On the subject of negotiating prices: The media coverage gives the impression that the prices of all goods and services can be negotiated freely. First of all, lower the broadcasting fees and the price of your daily newspaper. Because these are the media that you encourage as a builder to negotiate prices. For example, in the corner bar you can eat a schnitzel that might cost twice in a good restaurant. There’s hardly anything in this world that can’t make anyone a less bad one and sell something cheaper, and the people who are only guided by the price will be the just prey of such machinations. It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s even worse to pay too little. If you pay too much, you lose some money. That’s all. If you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, since the object you buy is the object you buy. The law of the economy forbids you to get a lot of value for little money. If you take the lowest offer, you have to count for the risk you take, and if you do, you have enough money to pay for something better.