I just compared Macs.
An original Macintosh cost about 45% the price of a base model Honda Civic.
For the same raw dollar amount, a new M4 iMac can be configured with 24GB RAM and a 4TB SSD – that is 187,500 times as much RAM and about ten million times as much storage (though you could do the floppy-swap to have more storage, up to a point – no one could realistically function with even a hundred floppies at hand). Not to mention 57 times as many pixels at 16 million times the color depth and a difference in processing power the is profoundly difficult to measure.
They still sell Honda Civics, for about 4 times the 1984 price. But, I should concede that the iMac as configured above is $4 more that the original Macintosh.
I'll offer this as somewhat of a counterpoint (copied from one of my posts on MR):
512 GB -> 1 TB storage upgrade pricing (+$200) has not changed in
4 1/2 years (since the 2020 iMac was introduced in Jun. 2020).*
16 GB -> 32 GB RAM upgrade pricing (+400) has not changed in at least*
* 7 1/2 years (since the 2017 iMac was introduced in Jun. 2017).*
*Except for effective reductions due to inflation.
**"at least" because I wasn't able to find earlier configurators.
Perhaps OEM pricing on LPDDR5X today is not significantly lower than it was on DDR4 in 2017 (I don't know, I haven't tracked those). But that's certainly not the case for storage.
Since these RAM and storage upcharges haven't come down in a long time, maybe we're now due. For higher storage and RAM amounts, the upcharges have come down, but those aren't what most consumers buy.
Source of M1 configurator screenshot:
Source of 2020 iMac configurator screenshot:
Source of 2017 iMac configurator screenshot: