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It's how "innovation" works. You get a new supposedly "cheaper" product that's like the original thing but cheaper because of questionable advances in either sc
by freitzkriesler2 3y ago
It's how "innovation" works. You get a new supposedly "cheaper" product that's like the original thing but cheaper because of questionable advances in either science or engineering.
That cheaper product isn't actually better in most cases, it's filled with poorer quality magerials and lab engineered chemicals.
The working poor then buy it because it looks like the original product. Except it isn't. Its filled with questionable chemicals and industrial processes that have an unknown effect in the human body.
See the replacement of lard for seed oils and how the obesity epidemic came from that. Beef lard which was once a cheap cooking oil is now an expensive premium product.
What ends up happening then is the original product becomes a premium
product and is priced accordingly.
Since America doesn't make anything, the only thing we export in significant quantities are food stuffs, especially meat. That meat gets sent abroad to places like China where they make more money than you and are able to afford the original product you are now priced out of.
So you end up eating grasshoppers and lab grown mystery slop.
- ajmurmann 3y agoAll these advances you describe have made food vastly more affordable to everyone. Not that long ago millions of Americans died of pellagra for a reason. > "Since America doesn't make anything" The top exports of United States are Refined Petroleum ($83.3B), Petroleum Gas ($70.9B), Crude Petroleum ($67.6B), Cars ($55.4B), and Integrated Circuits ($51.3B) sauce: https://oec.world/en/profile/country/usa#latest-data https://oec.world/en/profile/country/usa#latest-data >"That meat gets sent abroad to places like China where they make more money than you and are able to afford the original product you are now priced out of." Why would the original product get more expensive if people like it and supply continues? There is now increased supply in comparable products which brings prices down. Also, China is a quite poor country. The median income is $4,500.
- azmarks 3y agoPeople died of Pellagra for political and racism reasons. See: https://www.theelephant.info/op-eds/2021/09/03/hunger-in-the-heart-of-empire-pellagra-in-the-united-states/ https://www.theelephant.info/op-eds/2021/09/03/hunger-in-the...