I guess I’ve become accustomed to inflation. While reading a wonderful article by James Wolcott about his perusal of the entire collection of The New Yorker on DVD, I noticed the price was $100 for the eight-disc set. My immediate response was “That’s cheap!”
It is cheap, but not so long ago I’d have gulped at the idea of spending $100 on anything without serious thought. The fact that I didn’t this time does not, I assure you, mean that I’ve graduated into bloated plutocrat status (would that it were so!). No, it’s just that in a time when a tank of gas can cost $50, $100 doesn’t seem quite as stupendous an expense as it once did.
Update: Good God, it’s gotten cheaper! Only $49.99 directly from the magazine!