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Back in the 80's and 90's the price of gold was about 400.00 per troy oz. today gold is over 1700 per troy oz. If they made computers the same way today as they did in the 80's or 90's we would be paying 2000.00-3000.00$ insted of 500.00 or 600.00$. And we all would be complainning about how expensive the computers are.

Originally Posted by happyscraper

Back in the 80's and 90's the price of gold was about 400.00 per troy oz. today gold is over 1700 per troy oz. If they made computers the same way today as they did in the 80's or 90's we would be paying 2000.00-3000.00$ insted of 500.00 or 600.00$. And we all would be complainning about how expensive the computers are.

The price of gold has little to do with the cost of manufacturing semiconductors. Computers used to cost more then they do today because it was profitable for everybody in the industry and there were tons of people taking a cut in thousands of companies. Remove the profit and the finished product is cheaper, of course many people out of work can't afford it anymore but CEOs don't care about people anyway.