Almost nobody appreciates how expensive clothes used to be, even as “late” as 200 years ago. A shirt was once thousands of hours of labor; scarcity logic flows directly from that. The shirt you can buy at Walmart for ~$2 is a superior artifact along most product dimensions.https://twitter.com/morganhousel/status/1260287299213864960 …
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Here’s a single citation for you: we had a Navy in 1808, right? Uniform for someone serving it: $25 plus $10 for the overcoat. Wages for a senior enlisted man: $8. Per month.
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One of my views that the world is changing in a way which is not evenly distributed is the economics of food production are following the economics of clothing production in such a fashion that most people producing it outside of the market economy will be outcompetes and stop.
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In Japan and other places ahead of the curve, is the food as healthy as home food? Here in North America it is difficult to get inexpensive restaurant food which is as healthy as home cooking. Even expensive stuff often uses inferior oils.
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Depends a lot on dish and form factor but FWIW I would bet the pasta I eat the most of, which is packaged to require ~8 minutes of cook time but no substantial prep, is chemically indistinguishable from cooking it from noodles/sauce/eggs/meat/etc yourself.
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I also think that a lot of the perceived healthiness of home food is more status weighting than it is an accurate reflection of nutrition science, in the same fashion that people think that e.g. orange juice is healthy and fresh-squeezed OJ healthier still.
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You might not be aware of how hard it is to avoid added sugar in precooked foods in the US these days. A rotisserie chicken... why would anyone add sugar to that? Yet they do. Makes it taste better; people prefer it to its competition; people eat more of it; waistlines bulge.
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