On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 20:29:30 -0700, "." wrote:

On 7/2/2011 8:08 PM, John Smith wrote:
On 7/2/2011 4:35 PM, Ed Huntress wrote:

...
No, it means going down to the mall with a 50 and seeing what you can
bring
home.


Cheap chinese goods, yeah, done by slave labor.

If you can cause people to think dog turds have value, you'd never
stumble
across one again, in your lifetime!

True enough. But I've never tried to convince people of such things.
It may
be dull, but I tend to stick to the evidence.


I think you live in a fantasy world where you attempt to down play
reality itself, whether you are one who does that just to make idiots of
others, or are, in fact, an idiot yourself might be debatable ... I
suspect the latter ... you are not joking, you really do live in la-la
land.


If people knew just what value was in those little pieces of green paper
you can't even wipe your arse with, properly, there would be a run on
the
banks ... wholesale bedlam would follow.

Hmmm...something like realizing what "value" is in those little pieces of
gold? They'd be Ok for fishing sinkers, but you'd have to paint them with
flat paint to knock down the shine. Otherwise, not much.


As, I have pointed out, gold has NEVER been worthless, since the dawn of
mankind. If you have a tribe, a village, a society, you have gold with a
value. In a technological society, its' value is much increased.

The term, "Good as gold" exists for a good reason ... in my whole
lifetime it has only increased in value ... a dollar, when I was a kid
would buy 20 candy bars, today it buys one ... a dollar, by candy bar
index, is worth 1/20 of what it was then. Back then 1/50th of an ounce
of gold was worth a dollar, today 1/1487th of an ounce is worth a dollar
... blows all your stupidity right out in the open!


Most people are stupid, they simply "believe" and, therefore, it is
so ...
again, akin to that leap of faith which allows one to believe in god.


I'd find it easier to take you seriously, John, if you showed any
evidence
of having studied any of this stuff. It sounds like you make it up as
you go
along.


I don't see any possibility of ever taking you seriously ... you are
either a liar or a nut case, you just can't take those seriously.

Regards,
JS


well, js, you have definitely proved you are unable to understand simple
arithmetic, much less understand any factual data. Let us believe that
when you were a kid a dollar would buy 20 candy bars - and that it buys
one now (though I do wonder what candy you are eating) - what was the
price of gold when you were a kid? what is it now? what was the price
of bread, of a car, of a hammer? your data is 100% irrelevant, it does
not account for any economic factors, even something so simple as
"buying power" - tell me - actually, tell all of us, just how many candy
bars you could have bought with a gram of gold when you were a kid - and
please, specify the date.

On the presumption that you are too stupid to figure this out for
yourself, here is some real data - please avail yourself of this data
when you answer the question

The Hershey Company was kind enough to supply us with price/weight data
for their famous Hershey Bar from 1908-1986:


[1908] 9/16 oz.....2 cents
[1918] 16/16 oz.....3 cents
[1920] 9/16 oz.....3 cents
[1921] 1 oz.....5 cents
[1924] 1 3/8 oz.....5 cents
[1930] 2 oz.....5 cents
[1933] 1 7/8 oz.....5 cents
[1936] 1 1/2 oz.....5 cents
[1937] 1 5/8 oz.....5 cents
[1938] 1 3/8 oz.....5 cents
[1939] 1 5/8 oz.....5 cents
[1941] 1 1/4 oz.....5 cents
[1944] 1 5/8 oz.....5 cents
[1946] 1 1/2 oz.....5 cents
[1947] 1 oz.....5 cents
[1954] 7/8 oz.....5 cents
[1955] 1 oz.....5 cents
[1958] 7/8 oz.....5 cents
[1960] 1 oz.....5 cents
[1963] 7/8 oz......5 cents
[1965] 1 oz.....5 cents
[1966] 7/8 oz.....5 cents
[1968] 3/4 oz.....5 cents
[1969] 1 1/2 oz.....10 cents
[1970] 1 3/8 oz.....10 cents
[1973] 1.26 oz......10 cents
[1974] 1.4 oz.....15 cents
[1976] 1.2 oz.....15 cents
[1977] 1.2 oz......20 cents
[1978] 1.2 oz.....25 cents
[1980] 1.05 oz.....25 cents
[1982] 1.45 oz.....30 cents
[1983] 1.45 oz.....35 cents
[1986] 1.45 oz.....40 cents
[1986] 1.65 oz.....40 cents

So what is the weight and price of that same candybar in July of 2011?

$1.25..and weighs less than 1.5 oz

Gunner

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