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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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      Morgan HouselVerified account @morganhousel
      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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    2. 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.

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    3. 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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    4. 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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      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. Clark Willison, Wearer of Cloth Masks‏ @clarkgwillison May 12
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          Hmm, really? Cooked food much less durable than sewn garments. I can't easily get good cooked food from Bangladesh

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        3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 May 12
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          I’m betting the primary source of the efficiency gain will be a logistics network hooking you up to a commercial kitchen in your town which will utterly crush the productivity of both any residential kitchen and the vast majority of restaurants.

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        1. Matt DeMonte‏ @mattdemonte May 12
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          Cooking in a modern home kitchen is not really analogous to sewing. It’s probably closer to building with edible Legos. All the really hard parts of it are done in a production setting and the last bits of assembly and presentation are kind of fun.

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        1. Sam Tobin-Hochstadt‏ @samth May 12
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          To get to the current relationship in cost/time/quality between home sewing by an average person and off the rack at Gap, you'd have to radically reduce the cost of prepared food, probably by 100x.

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        2. Flo Crivello‏ @Altimor May 12
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          https://twitter.com/altimor/status/1063909482407706624?s=21 …

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          50 years from now, all meals will be bought from outside — and people will find it strange that we used to have these mini factories in our homes to make our own food, just as we find it strange that people use to sew their own clothes.
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        3. Florian Simmendinger‏ @Simmenfl May 13
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          I moved 5 years ago to Hong Kong and haven’t cooked a meal since

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        1. Nick McMillan‏ @n_mcmillan May 12
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          Replying to @patio11

          Yes! Cooking will be somewhat like hunting, a sport for those who truly enjoy it. A relic for most everyone else. "You used to have to cook every night?"

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        1. Robert Field‏ @ProgrammerRcf May 12
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          Replying to @patio11

          Cooking before gas stoves and then electric, and before mixers, was real work, fire up stove, knead bread, if you didn't have stove cook over fire in the fireplace, hot water a huge luxury

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        2. d j o r f f‏ @jurph May 12
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          I feel like some essential factor - maybe food's ability to spoil, which creates ongoing refrigeration costs? maybe serving size discounts, where buying 1, 10, or 50 food items at once are all normal? - are going to keep cooking-in-bulk economically viable for a long time.

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        3. threestationsquare‏ @threestationsq May 21
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          If rents keep rising then the opportunity cost of the space used for the kitchen will eventually dwarf those things.

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