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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Hmm, really? Cooked food much less durable than sewn garments. I can't easily get good cooked food from Bangladesh
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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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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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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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I moved 5 years ago to Hong Kong and haven’t cooked a meal since
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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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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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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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If rents keep rising then the opportunity cost of the space used for the kitchen will eventually dwarf those things.
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