So my question is, Are production costs getting so low that the world economy could feasibly house and feed everybody in the world?

Food production costs have been going up a lot worldwide, as they are largely dependent on the cost of fuel (for fertilizer, fieldwork, transportation, etc).

In other news, my poor coworker is like 14 weeks pregnant, and showing so much! Everyone has to talk to her about it, including some relative who was like, "Are you SURE you're not having twins?" Here's the thing: she's a wee person -- there was nowhere else for the placenta to go but straight out! She's got a long road to hoe.

I don't understand how you get there from where you started. Please elaborate.

As I see the internet eliminate local market inefficiences, I suspect I'm seeing something closer to the actual production value of things being sold.

In sum, it really doesn't cost that much to make the things we buy. That market values are manipulated to maintain profits. (And I'm not arguing that in an OMG! I'm shocked to find profiteering in a capitalist economy! I just think that's inherent to the system.)

Food production costs have been going up a lot worldwide, as they are largely dependent on the cost of fuel (for fertilizer, fieldwork, transportation, etc).

Yeah, but fuel costs are subject to a huge amount of collusion and market manipulation.

eta: The more cynical part of my assumption is that free market forces aren't allowed to work because (as 19th century industrial barons noted - "Competition is death to profits.") But that's not my main point. I just have the feeling that if you divided the wealth of the world economy by the population then everybody would have plenty.

Of course, I can't really imagine how the economy continues to work without rich people having all their dosh and other people striving to get theirs.

But I think the spectacle (in Debord's sense) necessary to maintain continued economic growth is harder to maintain when there's a saturation of abundance.

Someone invented a new food thingie! The "Silly Rabbit," which is "French toast breaded in crushed Trix cereal."

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Yet another example of "just because you can doen't mean you should". See also, sandwiches that put fries IN the sandwich.

Someone invented a new food thingie! The "Silly Rabbit," which is "French toast breaded in crushed Trix cereal."

This kind of supports my theory that we have achieved a state of More Than Enough.

See also, sandwiches that put fries IN the sandwich.

But that's like an old English tradition. I remember the Bay City Rollers making "chip butties" on Dinah Shore's Show. t /is old

Also they've been doing that in Pittsburgh all-in-one sandwiches for decades.

But that's like an old English tradition.

So was scurvy, once upon a time.

Now I want a potato sandwich.

Hi everybody! Thanks for the birthday wishes for Frances. She feels like she is a very big girl.

We just came home from a late summer vacay, and I had to teach today. A bit discombobulated, but we had fun.

I have nothing to add to the healthcare discussion except that opposition to affordable heathcare still makes me seethe with rage. And to Hec, there's a book you may want to check out called Free.