Re:The Ultimate Guide to Inflation
by XorNot on Sunday May 09, 2021 @08:18PM
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The better way to think about this is how much a CPU costs.
To build a modern CPU takes a factory and supply chain that costs multiple billions of dollars. It is a piece of cutting edge technology, sitting at the pinnacle of human engineering achievement. No matter how you rich you get individually, it's not actually possible to through individual effort to buy a CPU which is substantially better then the same thing any consumer can buy.
...so as a result, we sell them to everyone for less then cost of a few weeks groceries.
To build a modern CPU takes a factory and supply chain that costs multiple billions of dollars. It is a piece of cutting edge technology, sitting at the pinnacle of human engineering achievement. No matter how you rich you get individually, it's not actually possible to through individual effort to buy a CPU which is substantially better then the same thing any consumer can buy.
...so as a result, we sell them to everyone for less then cost of a few weeks groceries.