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07-24-2014, 11:14 PM
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Alex Jones or Glen Beck?
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Aren't they the same guy?
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07-25-2014, 08:06 AM
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Perhaps, but innovation does, in many instances, reduce the cost of living. How about substitution theory?
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It's a matter of deciding what you're measuring, and why. Measuring cost-of-living changes is one thing, measuring changes in the value of money is another.
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07-25-2014, 08:41 AM
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Perhaps, but innovation does, in many instances, reduce the cost of living. How about substitution theory?
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On Demand movies taking the place of video stores, for instance. I wonder how much has been saved in fuel costs alone?
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07-25-2014, 08:54 AM
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Originally Posted by donquixote99
Innovation-driven cost reduction is a separate phenomena from monetary inflation/deflation, and needs to be scrubbed out of the methodology for measuring it.
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Keep in mind that a large part of the reason that American foodstuffs are so cheap (compared to the rest of the world) is innovation in agricultural methods.
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07-25-2014, 09:40 AM
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I was watching Al Jazeera and this group of people were talking about how 3-D printing was not going to be the wave of the future but rather the actual raw materials that make up a component or consumer device. They likened it to amino acids in a DNA chain.
In other words I buy a turntable,,,,when I do not need it anymore I take it somewhere were the basic raw materials are exchanged back for a different item or for future production. They called it circular production; more complex than recycling. I could not really understand it that well.
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07-25-2014, 09:51 AM
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Keep in mind that a large part of the reason that American foodstuffs are so cheap (compared to the rest of the world) is innovation in agricultural methods.
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Such changes belong in a cost-of-living index, agreed. I'm also saying they do not belong in an inflation index.
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07-25-2014, 11:02 AM
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Originally Posted by finnbow
And the same GOP advocates for using a dynamic approach to calculating the CPI (which would reduce it and thereby reduce annual adjustments to entitlement programs). Can't have it both ways, methinks.
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That is ironic isn't it?
But then talking out of both sides of their mouth is pretty common among right wingers.
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07-25-2014, 11:03 AM
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Originally Posted by Tom Joad
That is ironic isn't it?
But then talking out of both sides of their mouth is pretty common among right wingers.
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You are leaving out another orifice significant to their reasoning process.
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