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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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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So the whole ensemble worked out to 700 man-hours, not thousands.
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That was post industrial revolution. Pre- it was many thousands of hours in e.g. thread spinning, etc. Point of anecdote is that industrial revolution brought costs down by a shedload but they’re still inconceivable to us in 2020.
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Not unrelated tidbit on curation of clothes I can't get put off my head: tiny clothes are not because everyone was small but because that's all that survived. Even quite rich folks (royalty even) wore their clothes forever, reworked, handed down, because expensive...
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Normal and big clothes could be resized to fit many. So were. Small clothes only for small people, grey tucked away, higher chance of survival. With disposability, I wonder if anything from this era will survive to be seen in 200 years.
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So giving a homeless person a coat back then was like giving them a used car!
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this is a cool museum to go experience how that changed & listen to power looms go WHAPWHAPWHAPWHAPWHAPWHAPhttps://www.nps.gov/lowe/planyourvisit/index.htm …
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this goes WHAPWHAPWHAPWHAP and is why people invented punchcardshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1KTtW-RtVo …
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