brockm on Nostr: If you adjust for inflation, and wages at the average industrial wage, believe it or ...
If you adjust for inflation, and wages at the average industrial wage, believe it or not: it paints a picture of food being pretty near the cheapest it's ever been -- when measured in labor hours -- than it has been in all of human history. Not literally the lowest. But near it. It's important to put this in perspective when making predictions of pending absolute doom.
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