Posted on 06/26/2024 10:24:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Bail after shooting someone. Much cheaper now. And you get to keep your urban terror crime spree going. Awesome.
Hey Mr. Kennedy, put back your banana. Credit to Rush Limbaugh.
In 1984, I paid $4,000 for an Eagle CPM computer. It didn’t do much.
8. Hunter Biden’s billing rate.
I flew in 1961, and it was as you described. However, everybody smoked, and free cigarettes were passed out to all passengers, even children. An advantage of flying today is that tobacco smoke doesn’t fill the cabin.
In those days, 2k was worth 2k.
Just yesterday, I bought a eight GIGIBYTE RAM memory card for $8.
My dad years ago said the first computer they had at Texaco had a 16 kilobyte storage ability and took an entire FLOOR in an office to house. It took thousands of dollars in '60's dollars just to keep it cool.
I remember a while ago, a professor of mine who would compare the computer chip advancement with a story. He'd say "if the auto industry had the same kind of advancement and growth the computer chip industry has had, then we'd all be driving Rolls Royce's, they'd be getting 1000 miles a gallon, and they'd cost a nickel."
gigibyte-GIGABYTE
dollar bills?
I always found the non-smoking section tolerable. Smokers, of course, would much prefer the old system.
Another thing that was MUCH better was the airport experience. fewer food stands, and no screens or wifi, but far more human.
So how can TV’s be so much cheaper now even though they are exponentially larger and more powerful? Yet cell phones and tablets started to drop and now are exponentially more expensive. I’m guessing the latest Iphone or Samsung S model phone doesn’t really cost a whole lot to build. Same with basketball shoes.
Since we are looking at the bright side, My gas tank now holds almost twice as much as before, $40 vs $20.
I’ve gotten much stronger. I have very little problem carrying $100 worth of groceries on one trip.
Now I can have the expensive steaks every time, $10 per pound.
I bought so much ammo pre-Covid that it has gone way up in value.
EC
It’s called Moores law.
Bookmark.
And to really compare those early PC prices with today, we have to double the 1980s price due to inflation. And in those days, a 40 megabyte hard drive was large capacity storage.
Politicians. Drag a dollar through a trailer park...
The article is making faulty comparisons. It compares a product’s original price to its price today.
Most products start out expensive. The price drops later. So, of course, when bananas were an exotic fruit, they were costly. Once the market became saturated with bananas, the price dropped.
Of course, when air travel started, it was an expensive luxury. The price dropped later.
The same with computers and everything else. Even calculators were expensive when they first came out.
Right now, on fashion runways, models are modeling clothes that cost a fortune. Once those styles reach the retail stores, the prices drop. Eventually, those styles fall out of fashion, and they sell for clearance prices.
That’s just the product life cycle.
Also, the 1980’s Cabbage Patch Kids were a toy craze. They don’t compare with a LEGO set.
If toys and clothing are cheap today, they are made cheaply.
We’re living in a period of high inflation, and products are made more cheaply now.
HILARIOUS
“ Adjusted for inflation, that’s about $530 today “
So things are cheaper after “adjusting for inflation” How does a human brain rot so completely? So if inflation was 1000 percent everything would be cheaper after adjusting for inflation. Great News!
“LA to Boston then would be more like a 1st class flight niw, only you would be surrounded by well dressed, proper people.”
In those days only the most beautiful and fit women could be stewardesses.
Today—omg.
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