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everyone is getting richer all the time.
the accounting process is fucked up.
people don't realize how good they have it.

There is great truth in this. When I was a young man, I lived in the woods, off the land, in a tiny cabin in Juneau, Alaska.

The startling luxury of electric light, hot water in a tub, and cloth, had me marveling for weeks after I came in out of the cold.

Good cloth is remarkably hard to make from porcupine hide.

Technology should be even cheaper. When prices are not going down as much as they should that is still inflation.