Comment by thrashh
4 years ago
People buy mass produced because it’s way cheaper
I just watched a video of a candy cane assembly line that made thousands of canes per hour.
If I had to pay a small shop to make that candy cane, I honestly wouldn’t. I don’t have the kind of money for the little things that I may want but not super bad
Of course, you could argue for a lifestyle where you just appreciate a small set of things but it seems people like experiencing more things in life than fewer
> If I had to pay a small shop to make that candy cane, I honestly wouldn’t.
Would that be such a bad thing, though? How many candy canes can someone reasonably eat in one holiday season?
You can give them away and make someone day’s better though
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It's a chicken and egg problem.
Does industrial production of cheap food make people choose cheap food, or would people rather cook but they only have time and funds to afford the cheap food?
Similar to the agricultural revolution, material need outpaced free lifestyle choices. Nobody chose, either the workers or the factories, but it's where we are.
And when you live in a world with 8 billion people, that’s a lot of food to sell.
There is probably some middleground
The beef is with ingridients, not automation per se.