[ARC5] Can yoiu say...

[Peter Gottlieb]

But "things" don't stay the same and resources reallocate due to pricing signals. Also, technology and electronics have followed an unusual curve!


Peter

> On Jun 13, 2017, at 1:05 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon <kgordon2006 at frontier.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 13 Jun 2017 at 12:56, Peter Gottlieb wrote:
>> 
>> It's not necessarily correct as different jobs had wildly different (reverse indexed) salaries back 
>> then. 
> 
> Well, we aren't talking about salaries: we are talking, essentially, about the value of the dollar 
> with regard to buying things.
> 
> For instance, I use this site:
> 
> http://www.westegg.com/inflation/
> 
> An HRO-60 which cost $495.00 in 1956 would "cost" $4440.52 in 2016.
> 
> Ken W7EKB
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