Things that have increased in quality but have decreased in price over the years

[Tarik One]

TVs are about the only item I can come up with right now. There was a time when those humongous big screen TVs would run close to 3 stacks and take up 1/4 of your room space, and this was before HD. Now you can get a TV a fraction of the size with exponential quality, not to mention price. Saving money for a nice television is a thing of the past. It's practically a paycheck away.

[imdaman99]

Most electronics in general except the newest phones.

Laptop, I remember droppin a G about 8 years ago. I can get a great one for under 500 now.

TV, I spent 600 on a 37incher and literally a year later 300 on another 37incher.

Can't think of anything besides electronics. Furniture?

[KyrieTheFuture]

Computers sort of

[Bandito]

Computers and TV. Now you can get a great one with one paycheck!!!!

[christian1923]

Hookers

[sundizz]

Well it can't be dollar for dollar...but rather % of course.

In 1990, the relative value of $2,000.00 from 2013 ranges from $713.00 to $1,250.00. A simple Purchasing Power Calculator would say the relative value is $1,120.00. This answer is obtained by multiplying $2000 by the percentage increase in the CPI from 2013 to 1990.

So using this as a metric:

-Computers
-Televisions
-Phones (you could buy a super shizzy smart phone for basically free and it still is 100x more quality than a communication device from 1990)
-Anything that requires computer chipz type tech...home thermostat, GPS, etc etc etc

This is a silly question. We have everything now. Costco even delivers for free. The last great hurdle of the immediate future for developed countries is to eliminate the nonsense that is traffic. No reason that we should ever have congested traffic ways. Put together a new age rail system with cubes, ala Boston University (i think).

[poido123]

basketball cards

[gts]

Hookers

Digital cameras have increased in quality and the prices though maybe not decreasing per se have not kept pace... the value to quality ratio is better today

[rezznor]

all electronics and technology

[Micku]

Porn. =p

[sundizz]

Porn. =p

True dat. But that grainy....flickers in and flickers out stuff late night was the real prn. Dat anticipation. That quick shot of what you wait it out for. MTV also had some show called Undressed around that time. Cot dayum...i'd watch tv on volume 1 and have my finger on that last button to switch over to Nick at Nite in case my parents came downstairs.

[joe]

True dat. But that grainy....flickers in and flickers out stuff late night was the real prn. Dat anticipation. That quick shot of what you wait it out for. MTV also had some show called Undressed around that time. Cot dayum...i'd watch tv on volume 1 and have my finger on that last button to switch over to Nick at Nite in case my parents came downstairs.

I used to watch that in my room at night. Holding back through the commercials to really draw out the process. If you know what I mean. Ha ha ha

[RidonKs]

"under capitalism, the art advances and the artisan recedes"

- alexis de toqueville

[Bless Mathews]

Weed.


Shit. Used to be 4-4400 a p way back.

Now Its hard to get 22-24

Smh.