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This morning I was using my razor, and I realized it was absolute crap, then the amateur psuedo-economist (as opposed to the professional psuedo's that advise the president) in me realized what a perfect example of superflous innovation it was. In my limited shaving career, I have learned a few things.

1)Shaving annonying, because the hair always comes back the next day.
2)All the "improvements" on razors are entirely unnecessary and useless.
3)The only factor (with regards to razor) that matters is whether or not the blade is new.

For the last few years they have been churning out these gimmicky razors. These add-ons don't actually improve the kind of shave you get. Even the "double blade" razors have no substantial advantage over their predecessors. All these changes have been designed to keep the price of razors up. If the Gillette and the other manufacturers didn't have these so-called innovations, then they'd all sell the same basic razor and been forced to compete on price, this would spark ruinous, profit destroying trade wars, which are clearly not in the interests of anyone but the consumer. So instead they make these crafty little variations to distinguish their products, without actually doing anything positive for the consumer. In fact, they make thing worse, by keeping prices artificially high and thereby making new blades (th only thing that actually improves the quality of the shave) more expensive, making so that you use less of them. The razor may also be a case of conspicuous waste on the part of the consumer, but I never really thought of a razor as a status symbol.

Well, that's that.

And here is a little self-portrait
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