"I'll give you something to cry about"

j_roby@slrpnk.net · 2 years ago

Drusas@kbin.social · 2 years ago

Food abundance came as a result of the industrial revolution, which started waaay before our parents were born.

dunning_cougar@waveform.social · 2 years ago

Supermarkets haven’t been around that long. The wide variety we satisfy our picky apppetites with is miraculous!

mosiacmango@lemm.ee · 2 years ago

You think supermarkets were invented by boomers?

argv_minus_one@beehaw.org · 2 years ago

You admit, then, that food prices are made up to gouge us and have nothing to do with actual scarcity?

dunning_cougar@waveform.social · 2 years ago

All product pricing is a complicated result of the economy. Thankfully scarcity is not a significant factor.

argv_minus_one@beehaw.org · 2 years ago

If scarcity is not the only factor, the prices are made up and we are being stolen from.

dunning_cougar@waveform.social · 2 years ago

Prior to 1960 the concept was uncommon.