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Dylan16807today at 4:35 PM2 repliesview on HN

Food is one of the things that's going to have the least change in value.


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win311fwgtoday at 4:39 PM

Quite the opposite. Value is essentially a function of scarcity relative to desire. Food desire may be, for all intents and purposes, stable, but availability is most certainly not. Something like a major weather event wiping out a crop can quickly change the scarcity profile. Food is especially prone to value variances over time.

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asdfftoday at 6:01 PM

Pick your favorite crop and look at yields per acre over the last century.

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