Aggravated at the cost of events...
Posted by: Aric on 18 May 2005
I'm not sure if this rings true in Europe and elsewhere, but here in the US it seems like over the past 5-10 years there has been a rediculous inflationary price on, well, doing stuff. While at the same time the cost of material goods - let us avoid Stereo products for the discussion - has curtailed its price incline (recently here in the last 4-5 maybe) or even gone on the decline (computers anyone?).
TV prices are on the decline, cameras, printers, many digital technologies in general, you get more for your dollar in newer cars, etc.
ON the otherhand, sporting events, music concerts, movie theater tickets, theme parks (horribly over-priced and over-crowded), vacationing spots in general have all seem to have taken off. It's like, do I want to spend $100 for tickets and another $50 for food to have decent seats at a baseball game, or for ten times as much buy a friggin' High-Def tv and watch the thing in the comfort of my own home. True, I miss out on the environment and the experience, but it seems like right now you get more for material possession than you do for a one-time experience.
I'm sure this will eventually swing 180 degrees, but for right now, it almost makes sense to buy stuff.
To each his own and that which you prefer, and I'll still fork over money for a good concert, however, label me a material consumer!
Aric
TV prices are on the decline, cameras, printers, many digital technologies in general, you get more for your dollar in newer cars, etc.
ON the otherhand, sporting events, music concerts, movie theater tickets, theme parks (horribly over-priced and over-crowded), vacationing spots in general have all seem to have taken off. It's like, do I want to spend $100 for tickets and another $50 for food to have decent seats at a baseball game, or for ten times as much buy a friggin' High-Def tv and watch the thing in the comfort of my own home. True, I miss out on the environment and the experience, but it seems like right now you get more for material possession than you do for a one-time experience.
I'm sure this will eventually swing 180 degrees, but for right now, it almost makes sense to buy stuff.
To each his own and that which you prefer, and I'll still fork over money for a good concert, however, label me a material consumer!
Aric
The problem is that they're not importing enough events from China. 
Regards
Steve M
Regards
Steve M
quote:Originally posted by 7V:
The problem is that they're not importing enough events from China.
Of course you may or may well not of heard on the News today (Oh Boy) that Our Micks fave, (The Free Market and all that fantastical dream stuff) has been dealt a rather heavy blow from the Land of the Free & The Brave itself. China is deemed to be hurting the Yankee Textile Industry by selling too cheaply (the Chinese currency going up too) so threy're curbing their imports bigstyle.
Now you can wrap this little cracker any old way you want it, either with Nafta, bafta, efta, WTA, etc, etc, it's simply & openly not playing by its own rules, but expecting everybody else to.
Fritz Von Confusion Say Fuck em, just like the old Sobeit Union
Now you can wrap this little cracker any old way you want it, either with Nafta, bafta, efta, WTA, etc, etc, it's simply & openly not playing by its own rules, but expecting everybody else to.
Fritz Von Confusion Say Fuck em, just like the old Sobeit Union
You can stay in the same (chain hotel) room, see the same band (live), eat the same (Chain Nosebag), drink the same make of drinks here on a night out in Berlin for about 50% of exactly the same in London, it's yer economy you see, yer all well rich, so there's no problem.
Fritz Von One born every minute innit, not to mention what yers pay for Rovers/Jags & Beemers & Benzies
Fritz Von One born every minute innit, not to mention what yers pay for Rovers/Jags & Beemers & Benzies