People tend to place more honor or value on things that are expensive and give less respect to things that are cheap. For example, when people charge more for their services, their clients value it more.
This is alluded to in the words of Lashon Hakodesh. The word יקר, expensive is a synonym for כבוד, honor.
On the other hand, זול, cheap, also means something low and degraded as in זלזול.
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Avos 3:16.
See Esther 1:20 where Achashveirosh decrees that women must give יקר, honor to their husbands.
