And cost $805 to Sony to build when they came out. Three years later, they're at break-even. Either way, the cost is still high, it's just been externalized - Sony is willing to eat it in order to get you in their ecosystem. Your "cheap mice" are just as externalized - it takes five times the shipping to get five mice in packages across the Pacific as one mouse in package. It consumes 5 times the materiel. It doesn't involve 5 times the labor, but it involves more labor - and that labor is paid at non-living wages. it generates five times the garbage for landfills - and if you lived in California, [it's hazardous waste.](http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/HazardousWaste/EWaste/#E-Waste Recycling Act) If your cheap mice were LCD monitors, you would have paid $30 in fees to buy them. So when you say "I can't" afford cheap mice, it's only because everyone else is paying for the difference for you. Your shit is in my landfills. Your transport effects are fucking with my air. Your supply chain is gutting my jobs. So no - recycling, organic food and environmentalism aren't luxuries, they're practices which internalize the externalities of a disposable economy. You're young. You didn't watch it happen. I did. We truly lost something when we decided that it was rational to buy a new TV every two years. All I ask is that you think about whether something that's "cheap" is necessarily "inexpensive."You could buy a PS3 for half the cost. Its well made aand can also play blu-rays.