| irstupid said: But doesn't matter again whether it was good pay back then or good pay now, or bad pay then or now. What matters is that the average pay for the age demographic of 16-22 has been $10/hr for 20 years. |
Bullshit.
http://www.dol.gov/whd/minwage/chart.htm
https://ycharts.com/indicators/average_hourly_earnings
http://www.data360.org/dsg.aspx?Data_Set_Group_Id=773&count=all
| irstupid said: Meanwhile the cost of consoles or gaming in general has increased by a fair amount in that time. It doesn't matter how many pops a kid could buy 20 years ago, this is about video games. A post was shown before that was written very well on how horribile inflation arguments are. In that argument there was one point talked about and that was the industry relativity. EVERYTHING technology wise has decreased by a fair amoutn over the years (except Apple, jk, even those rediculous prices are cheaper than before) but the video game sector has not only NOT decreased but increased in most all areas. |
The numerical cost of just about everything has increased over the past 20 years, it's called inflation.
Comparing IT industry costs to console gaming is wrong, so wrong i didn't even bother replying to him, PC tech was sky high because it was new grounds, consoles at the same were extremely simple by comparison, as the complexity of consoles increased, and the production costs for PC's fell what you see is the prices for consoles and PC's becoming smaller and smaller as consoles get more complex and PC's get cheaper to produce.
"a pc costs $500 now and a console costs almost the same, but in 1980 a pc cost $6000 and a console cost $300, CONSOLES COST MORE NOW!" is an extremely narrow minded, and frankly, retarded way of looking at it.
Since you seem to want to ignore the facts and any modcrum of reality to support your flawed argument, i'm done with discussing it with you.
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