Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working

Re:Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working by _factor on Saturday March 01, 2025 @05:27AM (#43217930)

I think we’re seeing his spilt economic system coming into play with computer hardware. Less and less B2C sales over time. It’s just not as profitable to sell to poor people.

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Re:Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working by UltraSane on Saturday March 01, 2025 @05:30AM (#43217946)

In 1995 my parents, both factory workers, bought me a $2500 Packard Bell PC with 100MHz Pentium, 8MB of RAM, and a 1GB hard drive. Adjusted for inflation that would be a $5,283.95 computer today.

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Re:Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working by chasd00 on Saturday March 01, 2025 @10:06AM (#43219940)

I remember that exact model. Computers use to be very expensive. You can pick up a brand new powerful laptop to build a career on for $300 at Target. (I’m in the US I know many commenters here are not)

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