RE: Authority of the marketplace?

[John D. Giorgis]

At 10:57 AM 7/19/01 +0200 Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLBD/BGM/SVM/SGM wrote:
>Yep. My first PC cost me NLG 5,000 (Jan. 1993). My second PC cost me NLG
>4,500 (Sep. 1996). My laptop cost me NLG 5,300 (Dec. 2000).
>
>Not much of a drop in price, is it? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?

Surely you realize that you are comparing apples and oranges, right?   Right?

Try comparing the price of your 1996 PC in 1993 and 2000.
 
I actually know the person who's *job* it is to measure the change in
prices for computers.    Every couple years we have to completely re-base
the index because the prices for computers have dropped so fast that the
index starts to get into very tiny numbers.

JDG
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