Everything becomes more expensive once a market for it is created. Meanwhile local foods like murnong and kangaroo apples are free in Australia.

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Yep and in order for these companies to grow they must continue to increase the volume of ads being shown, which only makes them less effective, which they try and counter by making them ever more invasive.

You people bake your sausages?

Yeah I agree.

That had chattel slavery. Which suggests they didn't rely on a mechanised workforce.

I recently discovered:

• If Books Could Kill from Michael Hobbes (How the worst ideas spread through airport bestsellers)
• Failure To Launch from Fluid Podcasts (How brands fail)
• Lions Led By Donkeys (Military history failures)

I'd love to spend more time planting trees. I volunteer to do it occasionally on weekends but I really love the process of going from sprout to seedling to planted. I just wish I could do more of it.

In the southern states of Australia you're likely to be asked "English Breakfast, Peppermint or Green?" Maybe one or two other varieties depending on the establishment.

Elden Ring right?