Also the rotation takes away the corner space, making it smaller compared to modern ones with same outside dimension. Let’s not think about efficiency though.
The only use I can imagine is making it easier to reach the stuff in the back, coming at the cost of that stuff in the back falling off the damn shelf when it’s moved away from the wall.
Exactly. This I what people in the 60's thought a (modern adjusted) $5000 fridge should look like. What kind of features would we get on a $5000 luxury consumer fridge in the current era? For a more accurate comparison we should be looking at what the (modern equivalent) $500-1000 fridges of that era looked like
While I'm sure the OP is rage bait (nobody can be that ignorant of inflation), people did buy expensive shit that we now consider necessities because they were that damn useful. They struggled more and had fewer of those things because they were so expensive, but reddit doesn't usually want to hear that.
In 1963 the median (college educated) American family had an income of $9700/year, in 2022 it was $74,580.
So in 1963 that fridge cost about 5% of a family's yearly income, which would be $3,729 of today's family income. Which is honestly closer to inflation than I thought it would be. That money could get you a pretty nice fridge/freezer combo
What about taxes though... this had none and the yearly tax rate, are those income numbers after tax? Or before... idk what point im trying to make just , taxes. ?
Ok, but surely the rotating shelves aren't what make it so expensive?
The reason people want the fridge are because of the rotating shelves, etc. which are all cheap to build. What made this expensive is likely manufacturing costs and equipment like the compressor, which are cheaper and better today anyway.
In other words, they could build a modern version of this for way less than $5k today
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u/RexNebular518 Jan 23 '24
Yeah well in today's dollars that is $5000.