Snafu -
Your servant, kneeling, cringingly craves your forgiveness - I realise you are correct and that a mere mortal such as I, am totally unfit to understand the metaphysics of f-35 pricing
A "price" in this case is a tautological construct meaning "a vast number that cannot be computed" ie similar to infinity +1.
I understand that that some of those "in the know" have stated that to NAME a price is to immediatley remove the possibilty that that number will ever occur in reality as naming it brings it into the current Universe.
In fact we should be thinking of "Hawking Pricing" where an infinity of prices, all very large, exist outside our space-time-dollar continuim
I have taken out my brain and put in ice box to cool down