It's one thing to be an old soul and prefer the bygone way of things, and then another to shill for a soulless corporation like Walmart. That company is responsible for the demise of more retail business in the U.S. pre-Internet than probably anyone else. They brought in the cheap import crap and sold it at cut throat prices for decades. They helped lower the bar for consumer goods and they drove out countless smaller businesses that could not compete with the appeal of a massive big box warehouse full of cheap junk.
Walmart, Amazon, etc. Unfortunately it's all just the way of capitalism, and there's a logical if somewhat troubling conclusion to that system. Without systemic change we're all on track to earn far less of the world's total wealth than our parents, and our children far less than us, as more is concentrated to the top. Unfortunately we live in a world where the philosophy is somehow thinking money is the goal, rather than the means. We're greedy by nature, and it's also our downfall. But this rant is getting way off topic and I'm not delving into the politics...
I heard video game prices haven't peaked.
