Raw footage inside Sears with Atari 800 and 2600 (1982) [video]

Re:Raw footage inside Sears with Atari 800 and 2600 (1982) [... by api on Monday August 01, 2022 @01:16PM (#32309185)

> How did people afford to buy anything back then?

Gadgets and appliances were a lot more costly back then but housing, tuition, health care, and food were all quite a bit cheaper.

We've had 30+ years of "disinflation" or "in-deflation" which is high inflation in everything you need and deflation in everything else.

The common denominator in the things that have inflated is that they're hard to outsource.

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Re:Raw footage inside Sears with Atari 800 and 2600 (1982) [... by kube-system on Monday August 01, 2022 @02:56PM (#32310572)

Food was not cheaper back then, it is cheaper now. The food market is much more global and mechanized than it was in the 80s.

When I was younger, "imported food" was a novelty because the local in-season food was all you could normally get.

Now it's (hilariously) the opposite.

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Re:Raw footage inside Sears with Atari 800 and 2600 (1982) [... by api on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @07:21AM (#32317273)

I stand a bit corrected on food but I think tuition and health care and especially housing are not debatable. Housing is particularly bad and overwhelms any improvements in food.

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