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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