Exciting news.

https://youtu.be/9kaIXkImCAM?si=b_vzB4o87ArcYNfq

Some people even figured it out in the 80's. Sears founded and ran Prodigy, a large BBS and eventually ISP. They were trying to set themselves up to become Amazon. Not only that, Prodigy's thing (for a while) was using advertising revenue to lower subscription prices.

Your "Netflix over dialup" analogy is more accessible to this readership, but Sears+Prodigy is my favorite example of trying to make the future happen too early. There are countless others.

Isn't there a class action lawsuit coming from all this? I see a bunch of people here indicating these scrapers are costing real money to people who host even small niche sites.

Is the reason these large companies don't care because they are large enough to hide behind a bunch of lawyers?

wanna bet? i will take a bet that inflation will not return to normal (ie. sub 2.1) in the next report

In the end, it won't matter.

Only economists, policy makers, investors and people blabbing on the internet do care about stats.

Ordinary people just look at price tags; that's all they need.

I can't speak to this, but I suspect something is afoot.

I know my mom went to a university that she paid for with a part-time job while a student. Currently that university's tuition is 80,000 a year. When I looked at what inflation figures said for college education, it wasn't enough to account for that 10x+ increase.

I don't think any existing numbers were officially changed, just that the head of BLS was fired.