PC hardware cost trends towards zero

Henry C.K. Liu hliu at mindspring.com
Fri Apr 2 07:44:34 PST 1999


Indusrtial trends show hardare cost for PC/internet access will move toward zero with purchase of access contracts. The day is fast approaching that incentive cash will be paid to customers up front at contract signing. Finally PCs are going the way of telephones and cell phones. Soon auto manufacturers will hook up with oil companies for free new cars every two years connected to life time name brand gasoline purchase contracts of about $300 per month. Vertical integration is moving from the production side to the sales side, putting the final nails in the coffin for "free markets and competition" in the classical sense. Soon financial institutions will provide you with all your consumer needs plus a guaranteed job to support the monthly payments. Is this market socialism through the IT backdoor of capitalism? Who will join the revolution if all consumption is "free" simply by signing one's life to the system at age 18. Exploitation becomes totally subliminal and systemic. Have Marxist economists notice this brave new trend?

Henry C.K. Liu



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