As long as a sufficient number of people care about quality, quality won't go away. People still go to the symphony, wear fancy American-made clothes, eat out a

As long as a sufficient number of people care about quality, quality won't go away. People still go to the symphony, wear fancy American-made clothes, eat out at resturants, fly business class, and shop at farmers' markets. These things are more expensive than the alternatives, but it's not that they've gotten more expensive so much as the alternatives didn't used to exist. For example, before airline deregulation, only the well to do could afford to fly. Before industrialized food, the urban poor lived in poverty and malnourishment, with infant and child death rates comparable to what you'd expect to see in developing countries today. Also, part of living in a capitalist society is you have no right to tell other people how to spend their money.