reply to liamkembleyoung at https://reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1v4ykv9/pros_and_cons_of_pre1950s_typewriters_vs_1950s/

Quality of the materials, build, and engineering, condition of the machine (clean, well-adjusted, rubber condition), popularity, rarity, desirability, collectability all figure into machine pricing.

Most would say that the $250-350 Royal Classic/We R Memory Keepers machines from Shanghai Weilv Mechanism Company that are available new from Amazon and other retailers are cheap, poorly made pieces of junk with dreadful quality control and thus not worth the money one would spend on them. (The fact that they sell on ShopGoodWill for $5-10 underlines this.)

You might also have a 1970s Brother typewriter (made in the millions) that might have sold brand new in the $100 range versus a used 1955 Olympia SG1 selling in that same shop at the same time (1970s) for about the same money, or possibly less. The SG1 is acknowledged as one of the finest typewriters ever manufactured versus the very pedestrian and "cheaper" (materials-wise) Brother, so it's going to be worth more money now in the secondary market. The SG1 is less common, has a better reputation, more popular, more collectible, and just a better machine overall which is also likely to last longer. At the low end the SG1 is going to go for $75-150 while the Brother will be $25. Fully serviced out of a repair shop (cleaned, oiled, and adjusted with new rubber feet and a recovered platen) they might go respectively for $700-850 and $400-475.

Keep in mind that most typewriters you'll see on this sub and in the broader market are far from "rare"; rarity and desirability are two different things; and rare doesn't always equate to being more expensive. Actually rare machines aren't often discussed on this sub in general.

5.6%的失业率和42.5%的低就业率是衡量应届毕业生就业状况的重要指标。这一数据来自纽约联邦储备银行，具有较高的可信度。42.5%的低就业率是自疫情以来的最高水平，表明高等教育文凭的价值正在受到挑战。这些数据与AI对初级工作的影响可能相关，但文章也指出不能确定AI是唯一原因。

这一尖锐的评论点出了股价飙升与实际价值创造之间的巨大鸿沟，Allbirds的市值从高点下跌超过90%，仅靠公告无法挽回数十亿美元的损失，揭示了市场短期投机与企业长期价值之间的矛盾。

Alfaro, L., Chari, A., Greenland, A. N., & Schott, P. K. (2020). Aggregate and Firm-Level Stock Returns During Pandemics, in Real Time (Working Paper No. 26950; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w26950

Céspedes, L. F., Chang, R., & Velasco, A. (2020). The Macroeconomics of a Pandemic: A Minimalist Model (Working Paper No. 27228; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27228

MikeFarb on Twitter: “What the he’ll is going on in the Stock Market. GDP dropped by 32.9%(a disastrous number)and over the last 3 trading days the NASDAQ is up over 300 Points! Never mind the Pandemic and Rampant Unemployment. https://t.co/e6aK5qJ5Lt” / Twitter. (n.d.). Twitter. Retrieved August 4, 2020, from https://twitter.com/mikefarb1/status/1289524802550546432

Same thing in publishing, too. Lots of people say journal costs are inflated & they can run one cheaper. They're right, but there are two considerations: a) in a market economy prices reflect more than just costs. They reflect the economic value, which includes things like brand value, prestige and also, as this & the other posts argue, an inflation due to productivity rising in adjacent market sectors. So the market failures seem to come from a) the difficulty knowing how much something should cost (having comparables and not having too much complexity to understand) and b) too high value ascribed to the status or prestige (which, if understood as a social consensus proxy that reduces the complexity of actually understanding the business & what it's value to the consumer should be, collapses b into a).