saw people on Facebook complaining about how high the rent was these days and they weren’t wrong but they put it in terms of share-of-income by historical comparison

and like yes, but you’re taking for granted how cheap and high quality food and clothes are these days

even in the 80s-90s before NAFTA I remember people knowing how to cook liver and other organ and low-grade meat

the t-shirt revolution of the 90s, when American Apparel made its name as an upstream wholesaler (off made-in-America DoD contracts lol), involving advances in (digital-to-) printing and technology but also the fall of tariffs that protected the Carolinas’ industry