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[–] gallopingsnail@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] aidan@lemmy.world -2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Compare the percent of income required for seasonings and fresh fruits from around the world now vs 200 years ago.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

heck compare the cost of labour 40 years ago to now

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That’s probably more of a function of our switch from consumption taxes to income tax.

[–] aidan@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What're you talking about? It's a function of global trade lol.

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You might want to actually look into the history of global trade sometime.

[–] aidan@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] aidan@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

You're just saying no learn the history of the world. That's not an argument, you need to point to your actual criticism specifically rather than a copout