From 1997 to 2017, college textbooks increased in price by 200%, while TVs fell in price by 96%. The difference? College is subsidized and TVs are not. https://t.co/kFynZ889LJ pic.twitter.com/AxSnIQ4vm7
— Cato Institute (@CatoInstitute) June 24, 2018
TVs decreased by 96%? Come off it. Only with the government’s bullshit inflation adjustments. A nice TV in the late 90s was, what, maybe about a thousand bucks? A nice TV today does not cost forty bucks. Yes, TVs are bigger and sharper and more reliable–much better all around–but a nice one still costs a thousand bucks or more. Even adjusting for inflation, the 96% figure is nonsense.
So that TV I bought back in the late 90’s for about $250 (after a tube in my old one went bad and I couldn’t find a new one to replace it) would only cost me about $10 dollars today?
Maybe I’m just shopping at the wrong stores.
All through the 80s and 90s I had 27 inch Sony’s. They were great TVs, cost about 400 bucks, which was expensive for a TV back then. Can you really get a decent TV nowadays for under four hundred bucks?
the sidebar has a link to wal mart–check it out guys–
https://www.walmart.com/search/?query=televisions&cat_id=0
Books are expensive when I compare them to the value I get for what I give for a box of ammo at the same price. But compare the price of that book to the price of a good rifle and the book seems really cheap. Wonder why the demand for self defense weapons went so high under the Democrats?
The worth of what is in a college text book and what is on TV have both decreased in value 7500%.
Books aren’t the only problem….the profs and the admin types have gotten large payouts to keep the socialism and political correctness flowing in their attempt to neuter the students and enable their attempted takeover to work….
There was an article recently here in the platform that showed the number of “diversity staff” at the University of Michigan and it was ridiculous…..the lead clown got $400K a year.
For what? Making sure the Crayola box concept of students on campus was being applied properly?
I bought a 43″ TV at Walmart a few months ago for just over $200. It does not have as nice of a picture as my 4k 55″ Sony, but it does what I need it to do.
Maybe the numbers are a bit off, but the point still may be valid.
I have all my college textbooks from all three ventures into “higher education”, 1977-1981, 2003-2006 and 2006-2013; I expect to keep them till I die. And then, they will quite likely be highly prized by whichever protege gets them; the way truth is always prized in a society of lies.
My textbooks are pretty much all engineering, science and math, however; things that don’t change much even if liars and SJWs go from “AGW” to “climate change” to “global cooling”, and back again. When the stupid and simple-minded starve out, they will become quite valuable to the survivors.