If his math is right, and assuming that his property tax is about 1-2% of his home's value per year, then the value of his home has increased about 15-30x the original value.
I was kind of generally referring to tesla guy, not-prius guy, and all of not-prius guy's reassuring friends. Like, people are so lame if they care about this.
I remember watching a TV news report in the mid 90s, before Amazon, Netflix, Google even. AOL was a big thing and people with personal computers at home were mostly just messing around. There wasn't a lot of e-commerce. The news anchor was lamenting that all these people playing on their computers were just a wasting their time "browsing," as if no activity has value unless it can be monetized.
Well, I don't know much about the resolving power and maximum refresh rate of human vision but I'm guessing that the monitor they described is close to the limit.
The analogy refers to someone who has their thinking constrained to the current situation. They didn't imagine that computers would become resource-intensive multimedia machines, just as this person suggests the cable wouldn't be asked to carry more data than would be necessary for the 8k monitor.
I can imagine a scenario with dual high resolution screens, cameras and location tracking data passing through a single cable for something like a future VR headset. This may end up needing quite a bit more data throughput than the single monitor--and that isn't even thinking outside the box. That's still the current use case.
Do you have a crystal ball over there? I still think it's a clever analogy.
I agree with your sentement but sometimes places become gentrified and the original inhabitants can no longer afford to live there.
I'm not saying that it's good or the way things should be but it is a reality.