Cars. Houses. AWS S3 space. Meta's VR headgear. Meat. Most of the toiletries and drugs CVS and Walgreens sell.
Then I remembered slaughterhouses:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/blog/2021/12/10/rec...
Data analytics and JIT often leads to an invisible cost to the lower class.
I remember the days where my parents would go to the meat store and make some random thing off schedule. I remember when I was starting my career and would be able to make do with the 'use it now' discounted meats.
Now, not nearly so much.
The problem with these improvements is twofold:
- They impact impoverished people, which are more likely to be dependent on such discounted items.
- They 'hide' inflation cost.
JIT and data analytics make it a lot easier for the maximalist market exploiting capitalists to get to the monopolistic pricing and anti competitiveness, and they can get there a lot faster.
With limited exceptions, no one is making more land. So there's a hard limit on the supply of cars and houses, at least until we manage to cover Mars in shopping malls and billboards.
There is a regulatory limit, sure, but the literal parking lots - not garages, lots - visible from my downtown apartment begs to differ that we are anywhere close to a hard limit on the supply of houses.
The vast majority of that land is not where people want to live. Building houses there won't change that.
Change needs to come from above the system, not within.
It's not even a matter of policy or politics or us vs. them...it's gonna happen, like gravity happens.
It makes sense to be prepared.
Other headsets are more difficult to buy yea but the meta one is very much available