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It's true the dollar doesn't spend at all like it used to, and that affects everything. But, we are talking about this bubble here. The devaluation of the dollar isn't what makes a radio delete go from $30 to $60 in one sale. It's not what took a set of disc brake factory wheels from $100 a set to people wanting what the 8" go for ($400).
When you talk about how much less things used to cost someone always says, "Yeah, but people made less money, too". Well, after WWII houses in sub-divisions were going for $7-8k, which is equivalent to $75-80 today. If you find anything around here for under $200k you'll have a project on your hands. New homes start at around $400k. That's 50x more and wages wages have increased under half that much. But that took 70 years to create such a huge wage vs income differential. true, it's only getting worse at a faster pace now.