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		selectodude on June 5, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer If you look at the historical ratio of income to the price of computers we're literally orders of magnitude wealthier. You can't just pick one data point and blast off.

JoeJonathan on June 5, 2023 [–]

I mean, it’s not entirely implausible that housing is a better index of cost of living than computers.

Xeoncross on June 6, 2023 | [–]

Generally, regulated industries provide a better measurement (housing, healthcare, food, etc..) than unregulated ones (TV's, computers, etc..)

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