alt Hacker NewsFood and shelter are cheaper than at almost any time in human history. Additionally, people have more variety of healthy foods all year long.
No matter how cheap food and shelter are, there will always be people who can not acquire them. Halting all human progress until the last human is fed and sheltered is a recipe for stagnation. Other cultures handle this with strong family bonds - those few who can not acquire food or shelter for whatever reason are generally provided for by their families.
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johnrob • yesterday at 7:32 PM
Cheap depends on how we define the cost. In relative terms, food is more expensive than ever:
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The US has built its physical infrastructure to make familial interdependence extremely difficult and often impossible.
Too monotonous housing mixes over too large of areas.