Not to mention how much other stuff was stolen from young people, like how awesome the internet was in the mid-2000’s before it got absolutely destroyed by corporations - game consoles that didn’t require 35 accounts to play a game ONLINE ONLY and a subscription to EVERYTHING in your life. Sure, it’s always been bad (because capitalism) but not THIS bad. And it’ll only get worse as the population becomes less tech literate.
Kids just go with it now, and it’s really sad, they don’t know anything different.
Adjusted for inflation, an NES would cost $600 dollars today. An NES game would cost $150. You had to go to the mall to buy the games.
Thanks to spotify, youtube, and piracy music is now essentially free and available almost everywhere. Adjusted for inflation a CD/tape album you bought in 1985 would cost $30. You would had to travel to the mall, but an entire album just for that one song you liked, and listen to it on repeat for an entire month or stay up late to tape a particular song from the radio.
Don’t glorify the past too much. We have never had such easy and cheap access to such a wide variety of media and games. Napster and early torrenting worked well, but the quality was often shit for plenty of stuff.
Not to mention how much other stuff was stolen from young people, like how awesome the internet was in the mid-2000’s before it got absolutely destroyed by corporations - game consoles that didn’t require 35 accounts to play a game ONLINE ONLY and a subscription to EVERYTHING in your life. Sure, it’s always been bad (because capitalism) but not THIS bad. And it’ll only get worse as the population becomes less tech literate.
Kids just go with it now, and it’s really sad, they don’t know anything different.
Adjusted for inflation, an NES would cost $600 dollars today. An NES game would cost $150. You had to go to the mall to buy the games.
Thanks to spotify, youtube, and piracy music is now essentially free and available almost everywhere. Adjusted for inflation a CD/tape album you bought in 1985 would cost $30. You would had to travel to the mall, but an entire album just for that one song you liked, and listen to it on repeat for an entire month or stay up late to tape a particular song from the radio.
Don’t glorify the past too much. We have never had such easy and cheap access to such a wide variety of media and games. Napster and early torrenting worked well, but the quality was often shit for plenty of stuff.