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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    1. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 May 12
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      Patrick McKenzie Retweeted Morgan Housel

      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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      What common/cheap consumer product people take for granted today would feel most useful to someone 200 years ago? - Sunscreen - Tylenol - Toothpaste What else?
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      Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 May 12
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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.

      7:34 PM - 12 May 2020
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        2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 May 12
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          Cite: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsp&fileName=023/llsp023.db&recNum=192 …

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        3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 May 12
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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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        4. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 May 12
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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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        2. Baud'Dib‏ @blahblahblah9tn May 12
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          So the whole ensemble worked out to 700 man-hours, not thousands.

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        3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 May 12
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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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        2. Steven Hoober. No, with a "B."‏ @shoobe01 May 12
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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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        3. Steven Hoober. No, with a "B."‏ @shoobe01 May 12
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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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        1. Joe Robison‏ @josephrobison May 12
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          So giving a homeless person a coat back then was like giving them a used car!

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        1. Matt Lovan‏ @mattlovan May 12
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          $25,309 - nice threads 👍pic.twitter.com/RBcU8qBAT5

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        2. Alan‏ @akgerber May 12
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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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        3. Alan‏ @akgerber May 12
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          this goes WHAPWHAPWHAPWHAP and is why people invented punchcardshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1KTtW-RtVo …

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