• Dyskolos@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    59
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    2 days ago

    At least someone tries to compete. I’d get a slower Chinese any day over the fucking greedy nvidias. Spent 2500 for my last GPU. In 1990 I bought 2 high end computers for that. And some groceries. And go to the movies…

    I’m so fed with all this. China will be the long-term winner in nearly everything.

      • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        7
        ·
        1 day ago

        Considering a PC in the 90s was not the total mainstream-thing it is today, Also i pulled that outta my ass, Don’t actually remember that old prices. BUT my first 3DFX, top of the line was like 500€. “Incredibly expensive” back then. Today you’d get some shitty entry-model for kids for 500€.

      • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        16
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        2 days ago

        That’s not entirely true. You can’t squirrel away 1990’s $2500 and have it worth $6300 today. The more accurate statement would be that because of inflation (and also greedflation), what you once purchased with $2500, now takes $6300. This decrease in purchasing power, most recently, was brought almost entirely by price collusion, corporate greed, and a lack of regulation enforcement.

        • boonhet@sopuli.xyz
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          5
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          2 days ago

          However, if you’d invested 2500 in 1990, it would be worth more than 6300.

          • MrGeneric@lemmy.today
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            19 hours ago

            Just as long as you didn’t have an emergency or retire in 2008 or the 10 years it took to recover

            • boonhet@sopuli.xyz
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              2
              ·
              15 hours ago

              Highest month end price in 1990 vs lowest in 2009 is still 2x growth for s&p 500, which is less than 6300, but not as bad as one might think the crash was. From then on if you wait 3 years you pretty much double it again.

              Of course the rich people who could afford to invest in 2009 have now 10x’d their investment. Most of us can’t really do that (invest during a downturn) unfortunately.