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Also the marginal cost for Macdonals to serve one more hamburger is also very low. And anything that is automated has very small marginal cost, which is most st

by z3t4 5y ago

Also the marginal cost for Macdonals to serve one more hamburger is also very low. And anything that is automated has very small marginal cost, which is most stuff now a day. If you want to measure inflation, check how much it cost to hire a plumber. And craftsman likes to charge even numbers, so they will jump from $100/hour to $200/hour (rather then from 100 to 110)

XorNot 5y ago
The better way to think about this is how much a CPU costs. To build a modern CPU takes a factory and supply chain that costs multiple billions of dollars. It is a piece of cutting edge technology, sitting at the pinnacle of human engineering achievement. No matter how you rich you get individually, it's not actually possible to through individual effort to buy a CPU which is substantially better then the same thing any consumer can buy. ...so as a result, we sell them to everyone for less then cost of a few weeks groceries.