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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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    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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    5. 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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    6. 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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    7. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 May 12
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      Replying to @clarkgwillison

      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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      Replying to @patio11 @clarkgwillison

      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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        2. Barry Kelly‏ @barrkel May 12
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          Replying to @patio11 @clarkgwillison

          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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        3. Barry Kelly‏ @barrkel May 12
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          There may be a cultural rift here. I dislike most Asian food, my favourite cuisine is French, and I like my meat hot enough for fat to be rendered but not overdone. That's like 80% of our meals. Meanwhile nobody can deliver decent chips. It's just not possible to keep them crisp.

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        1. Dedicating Ruckus‏ @ded_ruckus May 13
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          problem is there isn't 20k onigiri per hour worth of demand in a single town that productivity is useful if you're packaging for long-term storage and sale all over the country, but also inevitably creates inferior product building that kitchen for take-out is a waste

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