I mean, what are you calling modern history? Lots of vintage games are more expensive now than at release.
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IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 1 week ago
it’s this the first time I’m modern history that old products get more expensive?
definitely not a good sign
iamthetot@piefed.ca 1 week ago
sploosh@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I think they mean products that are not new to the market, but are still actively manufactured.
iamthetot@piefed.ca 1 week ago
Ah that wasn’t clear to me. I can’t remember any consumer electronics getting more expensive while still in production in my lifetime, although if we expand out to other product categories it’s happening all over the past decade or so. Inflation combined with shrinkflation has been making pretty much everything worse value.
Remember $5 footlongs, 5 for $5 at Arby’s, or the 10 for $10 packs at Taco Bell?
tal@lemmy.today 1 week ago
For computer hardware, it’s uncommon to see major increases — computer hardware has consistently seen dramatic long-term declines — but it does happen. The other major incident I can think of was 15 years back:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Thailand_floods
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Forgot about crypto GPU thing.
Definitely a sign that something is wrong