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Funny: you always hear about large price hikes due to this or that. You rarely hear that because of this or that event prices have gone down.
by tomjen3 5y ago
Funny: you always hear about large price hikes due to this or that. You rarely hear that because of this or that event prices have gone down.
- jihadjihad 5y agoMy guess is this is more a consequences of many prices in the economy exhibiting "rocket and feather" [0] behavior: quick to rise, slow to fall. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric_price_transmission https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric_price_transmission
- Barrin92 5y agobecause that's boring to report on. Effectively anything that has been digitized has practically collapsed in price. Newspaper, books, movies, music, and so on. Ask your dad what he paid for records compared to your Spotify subscription.
- troon-lover 5y agoYou dont own anything on Spotify, and the songs can be removed at any time. You can also be removed at any time. Ownership and records are still just as expensive today. Renting is just a new option
- harambae 5y agoNot really the point of this post I'm aware, but "Downtify" https://github.com/Igglybuff/awesome-piracy#spotify https://github.com/Igglybuff/awesome-piracy#spotify
- skeeter2020 5y agoSee: the price of gas at the pump. The one exception that lead to a mild reduction was shutting down the entire world, everything else is explained by this perfect linkage between crude increasing a few penny on the barrel leading to an increase at the station.