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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Like, “How many onigiri can you make per hour, assuming infinite supply of cooked rice and one worker in Tokyo?” Home: 100 or so? Restaurant: Probably 300 to 500. Commercial kitchen: Trade secret but guess 20k to 100k and you’re not off by too much.
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What about a nicely seared Cote de Bouef served with chips? Or a carbonara with raw egg yolk on top, ready to mix in and cook from heat of the pasta? I would not give up these things for all the onigiri and its ilk in Japan.
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I ain't buying it. That commercial kitchen isn't getting a strip steak in 100x cheaper than the grocery store. The ratio of materials cost to labor cost is completely different than it is for clothing
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