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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Fifty Year Ago Cost
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Posted by Steve from Mo - wait a mi on February 25, 2004 at 13:28:12 from (168.166.54.11):
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Fifty Year Ago Cost posted by Hugh MacKay on February 25, 2004 at 13:11:07:
I hope I never see deflation because a third of the country will be out of work again. Not everything has got better. Tractors, obviously, have not. But - here are some other things. Would you want to drive a 74 Buick that got 8 mpg? Would you want to be in a rollover accident with one? Would you want to t-bone a semi in one? I would not. Would you want a new family house with one bathroom and 1100 square feet? I built them. Would you want an eight-track tape stereo console? Would you want a 1974 computer that cost four times as much as one you can buy now? The new one can do things sitting on your desk that took a supercomputer to do 30 years ago.
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