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> I’ve long suspected a lot of supposed economic progress since, especially, the 1970s, has just been goods getting worse.

My take is that for the most part the high quality stuff is, inflation adjusted, similarly priced, but the market is now saturated with an enormous amount of cheap stuff.

The $5-$10 shirts you can buy off Amazon would be literal pennies back then. You couldn't get clothing for pennies in the 1970s.



The problem now is that paying a high price doesn't imply quality.




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