When I look into my crystal ball - what do I see?
I see that there are 7 billion humans on this planet - in short order to be joined by another 2 Billion at least.
I see and have noticed that the economy is beginning to reshape itself to feed these extra mouths, to house them and fulfill the needs of all these extra psychological (ego?) needs
I see them all wanting a consumer loaded experience of living..
I see that we are all going to find out, (and pretty soon) that we will have to make do with less, and share more, where price is the lever of guarantee that we will.
I see the model railroad club rising to prominence as we begin to share more of our bounty with each other...
I see that we need to gather what we can, whilst we can - because shortly this golden age of fulfilling every consumers desire might well begin to wane.
I see that this upward price creep must accelerate.
And that all things year on year in the realm of luxury goods (like model railroads - I think they are medicinal but that is not what the government will think !)
...are going to cost more proportionally than the rise of inflation and wages..
Perhaps I am looking at this with the wrong filters and need some rose coloured glasses ..?
But we are so lucky to be living now and thus why should I complain about essential price rises?
The skilled people who make our models, and all connected with the process, deserve the best wages they can get, do they not?
And I would like to think that any model I might receive reflects the quality of fairness to one and all involved in its manufacture and marketing...