Hard asset type investors were saying this in 2007/08 with the oil spike.
Gold bugs were saying this in the mid 80s.
Of course this is a misunderstanding of what is being measured but if inflation is in the news someone will be saying it is under reported. "What about food and energy!!"
This is the same exact thing that has been happening the past 40 years with this company and Windows.
Windows 10 was my fav version because that was the straw that broke the camels back for me and I would never even consider installing Windows at this point.
KDE Plasma is so vastly superior to Windows it isn't even close. I don't even work in IT either. A Dev intentionally using Windows is just embarrassing.
You would think we barter and haggle for unproductive hours for the goods and services we need.
90% of what I buy at a store I walk in, grab what I need, go to self check out and swipe my credit card.
Our society has such a strange obsession with new technology that does exactly the same thing as old technology but with additional benefits for someone that isn't you.
This doesn't even read as sexy-futuristic for the sake of sexy-futuristic. Every major city metro with a contactless farecard does a better job of making it seamless and futuristic.
From a security standpoint, biometrics are ugly. You've gotta put a large fudge factor in everything to accomodate natural inconsistencies. Nobody wants to see "come back and try to purchase after the blister heals". But that means there's a wide range to build mocks that fool the scanner. And, of course, once the biometric signature is leaked, you can't exactly change it on your next login.
In a way, the obsession with biometric payment feels dystopic. I wonder if the real dystopic angle is that biometrics undermine "consumer spoofing". Tying every transaction to a physical body, rather than a card number, probably exposes new profiling data at the sub-household level.
It was a change in sports betting. You really couldn't gamble on sports legally outside of the major casino sport books previously.
Keep in mind that black market sports betting is/was a multi billion dollar industry in the US so much of what you are seeing now is just more visible.
Even to take it down a notch, what has happened in the US is just boring. You almost can't have a conversation without one of 5 of the same companies coming up.
Been back full time for 3 weeks by choice instead of being remote as people trickle in.
I think when people start going back we will quickly see that most aspects of the office are actually worse.
I am a hard worker but I am also social and with just a few people back I end up wasting at least 1 hour talking about non-work related things. This isn't even an open floor plan.
If you are going back to an open floor plan, forget about it. Things will be so obviously less productive.
I am enjoying going into the office but I also know this time is limited. At some point in the future going into the office is going to be a perk with remote standard. Bet your ass on that.
You don't even have to bring in the cost savings but the cost savings will be the knockout punch.
Commodities have value in and of themselves though.
Bitcoin is a security for an electronic trading game that takes inputs and gives back less than that input.
Then on top of that there is this technological/economic quasi religion that is a random bundle of economic half truths but the followers beliefs are reinforced by the price going up.
Hard asset type investors were saying this in 2007/08 with the oil spike.
Gold bugs were saying this in the mid 80s.
Of course this is a misunderstanding of what is being measured but if inflation is in the news someone will be saying it is under reported. "What about food and energy!!"