Quote Originally Posted by Bovinity View Post
It's not philosophical, it's economics. Of course, most people will never grasp the concept of Opportunity Cost...
Opportunity Cost isn't a difficult concept to comprehend. TL;DR If you can make more money doing something else, do something else. Which is what I do, I don't make money through crafting, I do it through other avenues. I simply enjoy crafting and when it's a hobby and not a primary source of income you want the lowest bottom line that you can. That being said gathering is so easy, it's almost always cheaper to gather your own mats than to buy them off of the MB.

P.S. When I said you were being philosophical, what I meant was that this was going to turn in to a debate about how economics work instead of addressing the original point of how it's harder to compete when you have a higher bottom-line than the other guy.