You’ve probably seen this famous graph that breaks out various categories of inflation, showing labor-intensive services getting more expensive during the 21st century and manufactured goods getting less expensive.
  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    17 hours ago

    If you use your TV’s smart functions, it’s shipping everything you watch, apps you use, and how you do it to their parent companies. There’s even some circumstantial evidence that they’re monitoring the room and mapping your network, IIRC Vizio was involved in that or maybe LG. The price race to the bottom is to lock up data sharing contracts that pay as much or better than they’re discounting the hardware for.