I think people underrate the societal importance of us being post-scarcity for basically anything you can buy in a shipping container from 1,000+ manufacturers in, without loss of generality, China.
I broke a dish recently and was mortified, then remembered that human attention about the dish is now much more expensive than the dish itself.
This was not true when I was growing up, surrounded with non-negligible-marginal-cost dishes.
This was not true when I was growing up, surrounded with non-negligible-marginal-cost dishes.
(You can pay more than effectively nothing for a dish, but the thing you're buying is in large part the fact of having paid more than effectively nothing for a dish. The unscarce dishes are perfectly servicable dishes and in many cases actually physically indistinguishable.)
"Can you put a number on 'effectively nothing'?"
It's ~$2 for a glass or ceramicware plate, trivially, and falling. The plate literally costs less than the protein on top of it. Middle class could go 100% Thor ("The mashed potatoes was excellent. *smash* Another!") + not notice.
It's ~$2 for a glass or ceramicware plate, trivially, and falling. The plate literally costs less than the protein on top of it. Middle class could go 100% Thor ("The mashed potatoes was excellent. *smash* Another!") + not notice.
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