{"id":72940,"date":"2012-04-03T16:56:19","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T22:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=72940"},"modified":"2012-04-03T16:56:19","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T22:56:19","slug":"de-materialization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=72940","title":{"rendered":"De-Materialization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/econlog.econlib.org\/archives\/2012\/03\/de-materializat.html\" target=\"_blank\">Arnold Kling<\/a> looks on the bright side.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Twenty years ago, most well-off US citizens owned a camera, a video camera, a CD player, a stereo, a video game console, a cell phone, a watch, an alarm clock, a set of encyclopedias, a world atlas, a <em>Thomas<\/em> Guide, and a whole bunch of other assets that easily add up to more than $10,000. All of which come standard on today&#8217;s smart phones&#8230;that&#8217;s how quickly $10,000 worth of expenses can vanish.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arnold Kling looks on the bright side. Twenty years ago, most well-off US citizens owned a camera, a video camera, a CD player, a stereo, a video game console, a cell phone, a watch, an alarm clock, a set of encyclopedias, a world atlas, a Thomas Guide, and a whole bunch of other assets that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-country"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72942,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72940\/revisions\/72942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}