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Aside from the pandemic years, which are outliers, food has been consistently getting drastically cheaper for decades: https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/f
by caslon 5y ago
Aside from the pandemic years, which are outliers, food has been consistently getting drastically cheaper for decades:
https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-expenditure-series/ https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-expenditure-seri...
- danuker 5y agoWhat actual spreadsheet are you looking at? "Constant dollar food and alcohol expenditures, with taxes and tips, for all purchasers"? Because expenditure grew. Look at the FAO food price index, and you see it only decreased since 2010-ish, but on average since 1961 prices grew to roughly match inflation. https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/templates/worldfood/images/home_graph_3_dec265.jpg https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/templates/worldfood/images/hom... https://www.fao.org/worldfoodsituation/foodpricesindex/en/ https://www.fao.org/worldfoodsituation/foodpricesindex/en/