Me, while y’all are arguing about coffee.
(except I don’t drink that bagged crap!)
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Do you truly think a 80$ Yamaha could compete with a Les Paul? The pickups alone, which is only one of many parts are worth 5x the Yamaha and that’s not due to a country’s manufacturing cost? But the sound quality it transfers? Like I’ve played guitar for 25 years man, the point still stands that more premium hardware and materials cost more to literally make at a base level for the manufacturer? You can’t make and sell titanium yo-yo’s for 40$ because it’s a toy when the unmachined titanium costs substantially more than that 
Did you mean $900 Yamaha? What is so different? Mahogany/maple/rosewood. Pickups are not worth 5x the Gibsons. One is made in Indonesia the other somewhere in the USA. Yamaha makes the $2000 Revstar.
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Honestly
A $600 yamaha revstar probably does sound better than a $500 epi les paul.
■■■■ the revstar probably holds up against the ~1k les paul modern lite
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i know you’re talking guitars, but the stradivarius experiments would make me have serious hesitation about claims of price and quality in musical instruments
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The comparison is to show why an 80$ guitar would cost such and a 1000$+ guitar would cost such, earlier statements saying “using premium materials doesn’t justify the price as it’s just a toy” but that’s just not how the price of high quality materials (such as titanium) works 
if you make a toy out of gold, it’s valued at the weight in gold, you don’t just say it’s worth 50$ because it’s a yoyo? Y’all splitting hairs when the base of the argument is a 50$ guitar isn’t the same as a 1000$ guitar as my k2 Crystal isn’t the same as my W1LD Contrast, there’s a reason my contrast cost so much more and it makes sense to me with the materials and process it takes to make it 
Clearly we’re not saying the k2 and contrast should be the same price now right? That was my entire point that premium materials and machining costs drive prices
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This isn’t the conversation you’re talking the same points as “this premium guitar vs this premium one” when the point is someone saying you shouldn’t charge that much even when using premium materials, but that’s just not how the price of those materials work