I'm not a role model, I'm just a kid who's trying to figure it out.
What you actually pay for something is at least twice the listed price because of the energy, time, money needed to set it up, learn, maintain, repair, and dispose of at the end. Not all prices appear on labels. Actual costs are 2x listed prices.
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
When we understand knowledge-based systems, it will be as before -- except our fingertips will have been singed.