Prices?

[OldBlue]

Remember to hide your surprise, or contempt, if they ask you what "cursive" means.

Sad but true!

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[Heimkehr]

Sad but true!

And, in a time when the F word is now [much too] mainstream, don't be surprised if the young professor on the other side of your desk actually starts cursing, in response to being asked to "cursive".

If only the foregoing wasn't satire...

 

[Sean L]

I hate to be "That Millennial" but cursive has had ZERO real life application in my entire life.

 

[music293]

Well… if you don’t agree, that doesn’t take away from the truth… If it costs more to run a business, the cost will NEVER come out of the corporations pocket… it’s going to come out of yours… So yes, the burger flipper is contributing and his $$$ is still worth the $8 per hour equivalent. See how that works?

This...doesn't acknowledge inflation. Like... at all. :D

 

[music293]

Also, you guys are just never gonna believe how many present day dollars it'll take to make 1 dollar in 1900. Whoooo boy!

 

[Sean L]

Also, you guys are just never gonna believe how many present day dollars it'll take to make 1 dollar in 1900. Whoooo boy!

Back when you could buy dinner for a dime? lol

 

[SQTowelie]

Back when you could buy dinner for a dime? lol

And a penny actually got you something

 

[The Last Cowboy]

I hate to be "That Millennial" but cursive has had ZERO real life application in my entire life.

I'm GenX so I kinda have to agree with this. But, you should at least be able to read it. It's almost like a secret code now. I don't use it and haven't in years. My work required block letter printing before computers became prevalent. It was developed back when people had to dip their pen in an inkwell or they used fountain pens.

Back to the cost of things. As the supply chain changes to meet demands, prices will go up and, I'm going to guess, lower content vehicles will become more common place. This has happened during other recessions and we're very much in the beginning of one right now, in case no one has noticed.

 

[Uncommon Sense]

Cars cost more but they also are better vehicles all around. Things that were luxuries 15-20 years ago are now basic features on entry level cars nowadays.

 

[2nd 392]

In the muscle car era top tier 100 Octane gas was mid- high 30c’s, cheap reg was mid-high 20c’s, diesel was high teens-mid 20c’s. To add insult to injury 100 Octane not available here (Ca) for over 40 years.

 

[Sean L]

I'm GenX so I kinda have to agree with this. But, you should at least be able to read it. It's almost like a secret code now. I don't use it and haven't in years. My work required block letter printing before computers became prevalent. It was developed back when people had to dip their pen in an inkwell or they used fountain pens.

Back to the cost of things. As the supply chain changes to meet demands, prices will go up and, I'm going to guess, lower content vehicles will become more common place. This has happened during other recessions and we're very much in the beginning of one right now, in case no one has noticed.

Reading Cursive is fine when its actually written like they taught us...

Teacher feedback oftentimes looked like this though, lol

 

[Pig-Pen]

just a few years ago you could buy a house in downtown detroit for $500. theyre $1500 now!!


Lets Go Putin!

 

[Sean L]

Cars cost more but they also are better vehicles all around. Things that were luxuries 15-20 years ago are now basic features on entry level cars nowadays.

With some of those required by law, like the backup camera.

 

[DHW]

What's blown me away recently is the price of older sports cars. I'm 42 and have been nostalgia shopping for a mid 90s to mid 2000s sports car. Here's some of what I've found:

2004 Mustang Cobra Conv (5k miles) - $49,999
1995 Viper (34k miles) - $48,000
2002 Trans Am WS6 (18k miles) - $44,900
2008 Honda S2000CR (91k miles) - $45,999
2006 S2000 (56k miles) - $29,000
2006 Z06 (36k miles) - $42,999

I know some of these may be considered collector cars, but damn.

 

[Gladius Nova]

Price growth since March 2020 is beginning to surprise even me.

It started with Carvana offering me $5K more than I paid for my JLU Sport. No surprise there; there's any number of forum posts where fellow owners fielded similar offers.

No, what's intriguing, to put it politely, is the strength of the trend.

A work colleague's neighbor recently listed his house for $429K. Three days later it was under contract...for $550K. That's the power of low inventory.

Mrs. H periodically sends me comps of the recently sold houses in our neighborhood. Simple extrapolation makes plain that we'd really make bank if listing our house now. What she is less willing to concede is how all of that and more would be needed to purchase another house...and that's if we were even able to find one that meets our requirements and have our offer accepted. No, it's better to just hunker down for now.

And as for the current valuations of those things that we might park in a safe, and not a garage? Fuhgeddaboudit.

This.

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