democrat welfare programs which keep the blacks in the democrat poverty plantation. Min wage is also responsible since each time it is raised it increases not only the cost of everything but reduces the number of people in particular blacks and teenagers that work.

As well as Apple and other Cell Phone Company’s.

Jesus what are you so salty about?

@@AlexanderSchmidt-jz5uf i can already speak (i am in fact quite adept at it) and yet i am supposed to be thrilled and impressed at this miserable computer doing what i could do as a small child? i think not.

Because things weren't built like potatoes back then.

It's both, i.e. no real word yet (except known by the scientists) & that the typewriter was basically the only thing that the general public were familiar with back then that had keys. The typewriter was already 100+ years old by the mid 1970's & it was both prevalent & ubiquitous around the world. And all computer keyboards today descended from typewriters, that's why keyboards look like they do. The reason we stopped calling computer keyboards as typewriters was because they finally became separate entities so that people won't get confused between the two, because when we think of typewriters today, we still think of that machine that has since become obsolete compared to the computer keyboard. The other machine that resembled a typewriter back then was the teletype/teleprinter, which that too was used a lot back then for decades prior but is now also basically obsolete (since 1980 or so). We will keep using keyboards until some new technology(ies) will make that obsolete too & we won't have to use our fingers that way anymore. Who knows how long that would take to happen, it could be one thousand years or more from now. Or maybe never, we will keep using it for as long as the human race is alive.

That's coming from a restaurant with takeout service. So yes that's cheap. About 3-5 times less than now. But if it's coming from a grocery store today, the prices are still close to that. An extra large (16-18") supreme combo (everything) fresh-made (fridged, not frozen) store brand pizza is around $8.50 usd. I also make pizzas at home, from scratch (flour, etc), to try to save on money, especially from someone else's labor.

Once you adjust for inflation, that's like $40 in today's money. So shockingly expensive would be more appropriate.

That's about $38 and change in 2023