> But I can't help but feel our stuff is a lot worse than it used to be. You are probably wrong though, and you have to consider the benefits of lower cost ite

> But I can't help but feel our stuff is a lot worse than it used to be. You are probably wrong though, and you have to consider the benefits of lower cost items in terms of increased availability to the world's poor as well as what saving that money does to allow someone to deploy that money to improve other areas of their life. There is almost certainly a better version of everything available to you at a cheaper price than 50 years ago, and a much cheaper version at a much cheaper price that is almost or about as good that billions of new people now have access to.