People Still Seem Confused About What Affordable Means

[Donald Ian Rankin]

4. I think it would be more accurate to say that confused people think affordable means something.

Affordable is one of those wonderful words like "valid" that sounds like it means something, but actually doesn't.

If you want to, you can define an arbitrary level of cost to be "affordable". But because no-one else will know what level you've defined it as, and will be using it to mean different things, that won't do you any good.

There are some things that one can definitely say are "not affordable", because their cost is higher than the net worth of most of the population.

But below that level, and above the level of a few pounds that a homeless person can afford, one could describe practically anything as either "affordable" or "unaffordable".