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Topic	Controversial Opinion #4: Automation
darkknight109 06/02/21 5:45:56 AM #266:	LinkPizza posted... But things do cost more. Indexed to inflation? No, they don't. LinkPizza posted... The price of cars keeps going up. Especially now, with the shortage. Cars also last longer and have more functions. Also, you can literally get a used car for a few hundred bucks if you don't mind one with a lot of miles on it. LinkPizza posted... And the average price of Roombas quadrupled since they first came out (from 195.99 - about $800 on average). As posted above, the basic price of a Roomba has remained roughly the same. Indexed to inflation, it's actually cheaper now than when it first came out. The more expensive versions are the ones that have more functionality or options. Which, y'know, makes sense. LinkPizza posted... Even some food places have gone up in price. "Some food places" does not mean that food overall is more expensive, especially when indexed to inflation. LinkPizza posted... Shirts, too. I use to find the shirts with designs of whatever for like $10 all the time. Now the same shirts are almost always $20, doubling in price. Then go to cheaper shirt places. Side note: If you are buying shirts for $10 - now or back then - you are paying for sweatshop labour. LinkPizza posted... Games, too. Mant games cost the same if you get physical or digital... I have no idea what "mant games" are, besides more evidence you can't write very well, but the average game is cheaper now than it ever has been. One need only spend a few minutes perusing Steam or gog.com or any of the console online stores and noting the myriad of games for sale for less than $10 to see the effects. True, Triple-A games are more expensive now than they used to be. But Triple-A games now take tens of thousands of people several years to produce, where thirty years ago all but the biggest game development teams would fit in one room and could pump out a game in a few months. You're not comparing apples to apples because the quality of the product has increased, something you're (likely deliberately) failing to account for. You can get cheaper products or better products, but it's difficult to get both. LinkPizza posted... I mean, my cable company didn't want to pay more for some channel they already had, so dropped them. Your personal anecdotes are not statistically significant. Dunno how many more times you need to be told that. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! <cite>darkknight109 posted [p:954553339] in Controvers... [t:79384298]...</cite> <quote>LinkPizza posted... </cite> <quote>But things do cost more.</quote>Indexed to inflation? No, they don't. LinkPizza posted... </cite> <quote>The price of cars keeps going up. Especially now, with the shortage.</quote>Cars also last longer and have more functions. Also, you can literally get a used car for a few hundred bucks if you don't mind one with a lot of miles on it. LinkPizza posted... </cite> <quote>And the average price of Roombas quadrupled since they first came out (from 195.99 - about $800 on average).</quote>As posted above, the basic price of a Roomba has remained roughly the same. Indexed to inflation, it's actually cheaper now than when it first came out. The more expensive versions are the ones that have more functionality or options. Which, y'know, makes sense. LinkPizza posted... </cite> <quote>Even some food places have gone up in price.</quote>"Some food places" does not mean that food overall is more expensive, especially when indexed to inflation. LinkPizza posted... </cite> <quote>Shirts, too. I use to find the shirts with designs of whatever for like $10 all the time. Now the same shirts are almost always $20, doubling in price.</quote>Then go to cheaper shirt places. Side note: If you are buying shirts for $10 - now or back then - you are paying for sweatshop labour. LinkPizza posted... </cite> <quote>Games, too. Mant games cost the same if you get physical or digital...</quote>I have no idea what "mant games" are, besides more evidence you can't write very well, but the average game is cheaper now than it ever has been. One need only spend a few minutes perusing Steam or gog.com or any of the console online stores and noting the myriad of games for sale for less than $10 to see the effects. True, Triple-A games are more expensive now than they used to be. But Triple-A games now take tens of thousands of people several years to produce, where thirty years ago all but the biggest game development teams would fit in one room and could pump out a game in a few months. You're not comparing apples to apples because the quality of the product has increased, something you're (likely deliberately) failing to account for. You can get cheaper products or better products, but it's difficult to get both. LinkPizza posted... </cite> <quote>I mean, my cable company didn't want to pay more for some channel they already had, so dropped them.</quote>Your personal anecdotes are not statistically significant. Dunno how many more times you need to be told that. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror!</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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