Good bikes. Apart from not being available atm solid ones start around 1000$ and have no upper bound. Something with full suspension or carbon is +1000$
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#22Real estate.
The only correct answer.
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#23Building materials, right now.
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#24Eye glasses frames.
give zenni optical a try. Cheapest frames are under $10.
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#25Diamonds
For the unawares, the diamond industry is a cartel with supply drastically throttled to control supply and prices.
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#27Well, I believe the meta-question here is: why aren't we experiencing Moore's Law rates of efficiency in all aspects of human life? Doubling in performance every two years or so. Even if pricing remains relatively constant. I think it's sort of the basis of "Progress Studies". Look to areas that have kept up with Moore's Law (such as GPUs) and try to work backwards. Competition, R&D spend, relentless focus on innovat…
Silicon is pretty unique. Take crops, for example. There is no basis on which we could have a Moore's Law-like increase in soil productivity. We had the Green Revolution, but it was a one-off. There may be a second one waiting in the wings in the form of GMOs, but it's 50 years after the first one.
Why are crops so different from silicon? Because silicon was just a matter of doing the same thing at smaller and smaller scales. You can't improve plant yields by that kind of process.
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#29Eye glasses frames.
Luxottica is the name of the game here.
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#30Real estate agents,
Laptops with 16GB RAM