Nature of the current used speaker market

My dealer told me this many years ago.
"Do you know how to make 1 million $ in Hi-End Audio? Start with 2 million $"

The same appears to be with electronics, nobody buys nothing. People with cash buy new, others either don't buy at all or buy something less expensive. Middle class is gone.

What's available is often mediocre. Why buy someone else's mistake?

"Middle Class is Gone"!

This happened some time ago; when the commodity markets were being manipulated by the oligarchs, and your very own government. That's when food and gas was much higher than they should have been. Your government stopped the CFTC from intervening on this chicanery.

When this occurred, the people in the upper middle class could afford to pay the freight so they didn't care. Now the people a rung or two below them, can not buy what they are selling. It's not that they don't want to, but they can't.

        "Middle Class is Gone"!

A few Asian nations have a growing middle class, e.g., the PRC, but it has disappeared in the USA. And it's definitely a factor in the decline of hi-fi audio, and high quality life in general.