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It's not exactly bidding, but I happened to read an article this morning about the $4 artisan toast available in a certain San Francisco coffeeshop, which seems to largely fit the bill. Yet about half the article was taken up by tedious kvetching about how the Bay Area tech industry is driving up the standard of living.
One could argue (and indeed I largely agree) that this ignores the artisan toastmaster side of that economic equation, or raise any number of other objections, but that's not the point. The point is that this is a tough political sell.
(Statement of conflicting interest: I am in fact an exploitative Bay Area techie.)
The toast is Josey Baker Bread (yes, that's actually his name; short documentary here) and it really is that good. By which I mean, as another exploitative Bay Area techie, I've paid that price at The Mill more than once and I felt it was worth it.
The toast only manages to be worth four dollars to you because four dollars is worth less to you than to poorer people. (At least in the sense of how much you would care if you lost four dollars and what you would be willing to do to get another four dollars).