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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"How the Other Half Ate" discusses how the early-20th century US urban working class were if anything more likely than the middle class to buy food from bakeries etc, due to cramped apartments & women more likely to be employed (so less time to cook).
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Seems like the rate of people cooking at home has fluctuated substantially over time, with fashions and with changes in the relative price of wage labour & regulatory compliance on one hand and home floor area, appliances, & imputed home labour on the other.
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does it? cafeteria and even automats were common in that era and unmarried men often ate food cooked by the proprietress of their boardinghouse
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even here in high-cost NYC labor-saving devices are not terribly common in foodservice and the main technological improvement in delivery logistics in the past 100 years is the electric bike (deliverymen are generally outside the formal labor market & paid largely in tips)
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