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Have we mastered the Market?

Adeon Hawkwood

By Adeon Hawkwood,
Posted on: 2011-07-17 22:37 in The Market and Inventions

 

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Interesting article. I'm kinda skeptical only because they used 2005 data, "The most recent available" and 2009 RECS data is available. Maybe it wasn't when they started writing... I'm told that pawnshops have been doing a lot of business. We've got six million extra unemployed, most for at least a year at this point and not counting the ones who've given up looking. (I'm only considered unemployed because after I graduated I started looking for a job...)

But yeah, we have a lot of stuff in this country.

EDIT: Did some math. Two 24" TV's plus DVD player, new, around $500; to put it another way, under 10 tanks of gasoline at current prices. Or one car repair if you're lucky.

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Originally Posted by Ironblade View Post
Article here.
Yeah, according to the Census Bureau, the average "poor" family has two color TV's. Maybe 'middle class' really is $150,000 per year.
Like you, I'm old enough remember when color TVs were expensive too.





I cant believe anyone has a VCR still.

 

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Originally Posted by Fulmens View Post
EDIT: Did some math. Two 24" TV's plus DVD player, new, around $500; to put it another way, under 10 tanks of gasoline at current prices. Or one car repair if you're lucky.
And less than that if you put bid up on craigslist and you're willing to wait. I have bids out on a few stacks of ten myself.

 

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Originally Posted by all_hell View Post
Like you, I'm old enough remember when color TVs were expensive too.





I cant believe anyone has a VCR still.
I have one! It doesn't get used much but the parents wedding is on VHS as were some news items involving my late dad (he was in a train bomb incident in Montreal ((as a victim, he survived!)) On September 3, 1984, a pipe bomb exploded inside a Central Station locker, killing 3 people and injuring 30 more. But I also have tons of old stuff like cassettes, a few random 8-tracks, LPs and such heh.

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Originally Posted by Fulmens View Post
Interesting article. I'm kinda skeptical only because they used 2005 data, "The most recent available" and 2009 RECS data is available. Maybe it wasn't when they started writing... I'm told that pawnshops have been doing a lot of business. We've got six million extra unemployed, most for at least a year at this point and not counting the ones who've given up looking. (I'm only considered unemployed because after I graduated I started looking for a job...)

But yeah, we have a lot of stuff in this country.

EDIT: Did some math. Two 24" TV's plus DVD player, new, around $500; to put it another way, under 10 tanks of gasoline at current prices. Or one car repair if you're lucky.
Yeah, my own definition of "poor" has changed a lot. I remember going through a rough stretch with family growing up when dad was between jobs and mom did some sewing we basically had to stretch food for weeks at a time and so on...and support dad's smoking habit (heh). Now poor is "not having spending money for luxuries like the new NHL franchise on X-Box" or something that someone really struggling would consider appalling. Even at the worst I haven't seen real poverty like my grandparents did (raising 10 kids on a forest ranger's/mayor's budget, being one of the few with a TV, mmhmmm.... )

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