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The answer is "yes". This is part of what makes America (and the rest of the world) so rich compared to the past. A while ago I was looking to buy a small knife
by Aerroon 5y ago
The answer is "yes". This is part of what makes America (and the rest of the world) so rich compared to the past. A while ago I was looking to buy a small knife for the kitchen and I found a whole pack of them. The average cost of each knife was 60 cents. The meal you prepare with that knife is going to cost more than the knife itself. That just blew me away. Imagine showing this kind of wealth to somebody from the medieval period.
Food waste is fine though. It's a side effect of food being incredibly abundant. It is the only realistic mechanism to fight hunger. You want food to be so cheap and so readily available that people are willing to easily write it off.
- chii 5y ago> Imagine showing this kind of wealth to somebody from the medieval period. modern industrial production is mind bogglingly large scale. It required over 200 years of continuous investment (in aggregate) to achieve, however, so it was not cheap. And we reap that progress today.
- inglor_cz 5y agoIt also required a lot of customers. An 8-billion mankind produces much more demand for things than a 1-billion one.
- dustymcp 5y agoWell the issue with that is overproduction and saturation of the soils its grown in, to the massive amount of nutrients going into the groundwater except for those things over production is good /s
- vasco 5y agoWhat is your argument? The person you replied to explained why this is necessary while we don't have more sophisticated supply chains to prevent hunger. Would you prefer more people die of hunger to not saturate some grounds?