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That is how all farming started take any fruit, spice or grain it was first grown for the nobles/kings/rich as they learned more about and grew larger quantitie
by xbmcuser 9y ago
That is how all farming started take any fruit, spice or grain it was first grown for the nobles/kings/rich as they learned more about and grew larger quantities they became commodities that everyone uses.
- Kalium 9y agoYou're completely correct. This applies to basically every technology - very few things are cheap enough to make available to everyone when first introduced. With that said, it's often difficult to make this point successfully to people who resent that those with greater resources at their disposal have greater access to new, expensive technologies. Telling such people that today's technology that puts expensive herbs on the plates of the 1% today can grow food for the poor tomorrow is of little avail when they have visions dancing in their heads of food for the 99% being grown cheaply in basements today.