Imagine your dollar would be worth more tomorrow if you didn't spend it today.
That's basically what happens with technology. Plenty of people still buy the latest TV even when there will be a better and cheaper one in a year or two.
I wanted to make a joke reply and list a bunch of other unrelated things that happened on that day... But of course I find nothing but that one thing...
This. I didn't know steak was good until I spent a few months living with my uncle, because growing up, if my mom made steak, it was like burnt shoe leather. Why would I ever think to order it at a restaurant?
So someone enters the country illegally, commits a crime, you want to just send them back? To do it all again? Rather than, you know, put them in jail for the crime?
Minor nitpick, it's not friction, its compression. The air can't move out of your way fast enough, so you push it ahead of you, and as more air gets smooshed together, it gets hotter.
Also, limitless consumption is unsustainable. Maybe we need to get used to the idea of deflation, learn to live with it...