yeh im not sure food being a bigger part of the budget is a good thing. Wet streets dont cause rain.
Food getting more expensive is signs of a dying/regressing system.
not the same as food quality falling with price.
Poor food is a form of shrinkflation. But lower costs of quality food (reducing the amount spend as a % of income) does not mean that food is poor quality, or that having more wealth after youve covered your needs is a bad thing.
My guess is that we'd be hard-pressed to find a society (now or in the past) in which people aren't spending a pretty big proportion of time/energy/resources on their food. I don't see that itself as a problem.
Pre-orange pilling it was clear to me that ag subsidies got Americans in particular used to food that is cheap, abundant, and low-quality. As a result, other household budget decisions tended to settle around that lower grocery bill and we got used to cheap food (well, "cheap" food but very expensive in the long term due to the disruptions of the subsidies and the enormous extraneous costs to us in terms of sovereignty and culture).
I haven't fully thought this through relative to what I've learned recently about fiat currencies and the disaster that is the Fed, but I can certainly imagine a healthy dynamic society in which people are spending considerably less on
govt bureaucracy
housing
insurance
"health" care
schooling
and, proportionally, more on food.
You're saying that food getting more expensive is in itself a problem (and I agree) but I guess what I'm saying is that it's been artificially cheap to the great detriment of almost everyone.
Absolutely. You can pay the farmer now or the doctor laterβ¦
