Originally Posted by TheBaron Deux

I paid right at $15k for my 1985 Mustang GT, top of the line back then, a whopping 225 horsepower. That would put it over $36k now with 3% inflation. Today you can buy a 2016 Mustang Fastback V-6 with over 100 more horsepower, huge improvements in quality, handling, fuel economy...any metric you can name, for about $24k. My computer is better but less expensive. My 80" flatscreen cost $1000 less than the 50" it replaced. Yes, some things are more expensive; I almost never buy T-bone steaks anymore. Just as many have either gone down drastically for the same level of quality, or they have improved considerably for the same price. Is your $200 iPhone 6 no better than the $200 iPhone 4 you had in 2011? Everyone keeps focusing on what they perceive as givebacks and ignoring all the gains, or dismissing them as beneath us.