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Would be interesting to compare those values to typical wages of the time. How many hours did you need to work for a restaurant visit? Most products are far ch
by legulere 5y ago
Would be interesting to compare those values to typical wages of the time.
How many hours did you need to work for a restaurant visit?
Most products are far cheaper in terms of hours of labour needed to produce them nowadays, while services and restaurants largely stayed the same in labour-intensity, so inflation-adjusted numbers would not be very helpful.
- enkid 5y agoI'm not sure about restaurants not getting more efficient. Even things like microwaves, refrigeration and automated fryers and cash registers seem like they would drive up efficiency, not to mention the improvements in logistics and food distribution.
- legulere 5y agoThose probably lead to a few percent of efficiency increases. In agriculture already you see orders of magnitude increases if you look in how many people used to work in it and how many people work in it today. In Industry the efficiency increases can be even higher.
- inglor_cz 5y agoTakeaways / fast food chains are much more efficient than standard restaurants, and the prices reflect that.