[myaccount80]

Are you considering “having cheaper stuff” actually progress in terms of humanity ?

[sigstoat]

you've grown so accustomed to modern conveniences that you don't realize that you're kept alive by things that not even a king could've afforded 100 years ago.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/06/26/the-a...

[the_pwner224]

Yes, when everything becomes cheaper we can pursue greater technology. Having a 5GHz computer would have been impossible some decades ago; now they can be used for scientific research by anyone who has $500.

Ultimately price is just a measurement of how many resources it takes to make something, with the currency added in as the medium of exchange. A product being cheap means it is now easy for us to make; the previous price of the now-cheap product will be taken up by a better product.

[Dylan16807]

Sure, why not? Cheaper stuff, from another angle, means you can work fewer hours to achieve the same lifestyle. And that's pretty good!

[Applejinx]

But you don't. None of us do. At some point theory has to run into a reality check.

[harryh]

Yes, the march of human progress can be measured in the decrease in prices of all of the things we produce.