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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This implies that cooking for one’s family won’t go away but it will be a more niche lifestyle choice in the future, similarly to how “Oh yes, I sew most of our clothes” is in 2020. That was not a very niche preference back in living memory.
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I like the thought, but where do you get the thousands of hours of labor for a Walmart comparable $2 t-shirt citation from? Would love to see some source that shows just how much time it took to make a t-shirt comparable shirt, along with other types of clothing.
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for the record, i watch and read a lot about historical costuming and historical dress and the $2 shirt isn’t superior - but it is more available. handmade fabrics are, if produced by professionals (eg not at home), vastly superior in nearly every way
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Most people were wearing homespun. It was only the wealthy that were buying clothing made by tailors using high end manufactured cloth made by silk workers in Lyon or Flemish woolens.
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I like the flip side too: Every article of clothing was bespoke until recent history.
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Even something as simple as a modern wooden pencil that we can buy for $0.065 is an amazing example of economies of scale and division of labor. Average hourly wage in the US is $27 or $.0075 per second. So less than 10 seconds of work buys a pencil.
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