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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
One of the ticking time bombs in the "AI"-driven price hikes for electronics are hedonics. Basically, many inflation calculations rely on electronics to downplay real inflation: they expect the price to only go down and new hardware features are marked as deflation
An electronics industry that isn't delivering new hardware features and raises prices is going to hit inflation indexes with a double punch
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