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by nradov 1509 days ago
You are referring to the hedonic quality adjustment factor that the BLS applies to CPI calculations. It's not at all stupid and it doesn't result in trillion dollar cellphones. You should really read up on the basics instead of making ignorant comments about things you don't understand.

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/quality-adjustment/questions-and-ans...