@Garcian Smith
Please tell me you aren't serious? Are you trying to dispute me? It's called a job. College students, unless they are dumb, make around $10-$20 bucks an hour. Any standard internship will pay this, as well as waiting tables. At even 12 dollars an hour 12 * 40 = $ 480. Adults make seriously more than this.
Did I mention inflation? I don't think so. I am a business major so it is my job to know about this. Internal and external pressures contribute to increases in the aggregate Consumer Price Index, changes in Unskilled Wage Earnings, Gross Domestic Product Per Capita, I will not go into this and all the complexitities of economics. The inflation rate,(not inflation there is no such thing) is just one of many factors that contribute to increases in the aggregate price level.
So accordingly, $299 when the PS2 was released has the same purchasing power, not value, as ~$430 in today's terms. So shut up and don't try to bash someone you don't know.
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