Originally Posted by milky

I wonder if you guys like it when you get something for less than you paid before. I wonder how many of you still pay $4,000.00 for a laptop or $3000.00 for a desktop computer. It is odd to me how you could be willing to take part in the economy as a consumer and enjoy how technology has lowered the price of goods and services over time. I would think you guys would be standing at best buy screaming at the top of your lungs that you WILL NOT be paying $600 for this laptop. I DEMAND to pay the inflation-corrected price that this laptop would have cost in 1995!

Most of you will not get my point (or pretend not to) and many of you will attack me. The fact is, typewriter repair people got laid off or had to adjust to new lines of work. If you don't like how technology and change have affected your business, artificially trying to adjust the market because you want to get paid more will only work if you somehow convince ALL of the competition to join you. That is actually illegal, but it won't happen anyway because free-market competition has lowered the price of your services.