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Going out to restaurants more than once a month or so wasn't a common household experience either. Essentially all of these things are possible due to a rise i

Going out to restaurants more than once a month or so wasn't a common household experience either. Essentially all of these things are possible due to a rise in living standards and income. That money was going to go somewhere, and no matter where it went, you would inevitably be able go back and tell a just-so story about how it went one way instead of another because of marketing.

VLM 13y ago
"tell a just-so story" That is theoretically possible, but with some of the more off the wall ideas like highly processed breakfast cereals, it should be easy to run statistical correlation tests. I do agree with your point WRT established and ingrained ideas like "someone cooks your food for you and someone puts it on a table while you relax" which is not all that weird or new of an idea, just previously too expensive. In contrast, considering something that's a bizarre idea like packaged processed breakfast cereals, that demand simply had to be manufactured because its too weird to organically grow itself. I mean, you're going to do what to corn, and then put it in a plastic bag, then drown it in cow milk even though you're an adult human not a baby cow, then eat it? Really? That's just weird.