ARTICLE AD BOX
If you're complaining about the price of butter, here's a data point to keep in mind as you butter your croissant: "All dairy products have become much more abundant, especially since the mid-1800s, and chiefly for unskilled workers."
The same hours of unskilled work that bought 1 pound of butter in England in the 1200s bought 15.6 pounds of butter in 2022.Instead of 1 pound of cheese, an unskilled worker got 10.6 pounds.
1 gallon of milk became 15.1 gallons.Read more here at Human Progress.
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