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I'm not impressed with academics who think all physical labor is torture. NOT EVERYONE IS LIKE YOU OR WANT TO BE LIKE YOU! Sorry for the shouting...
This wouldn't stop somebody from fishing for fun/sport, unless you're saying it's common that people use industrial fishing equipment for fun.
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I don't think it's inevitable that quality has to deteriorate. I buy all sorts of manufactured products that are perfectly good; competition in balanced, well-run markets keeps producers in line. And personally, I'm willing to pay extra for lab-grown. I'm sure they'll sell that as a health benefit; it's much easier to avoid contaminants. But for me it's about minimized negative externalities. I don't have to worry th…
"And personally, I'm willing to pay extra for lab-grown." I believe this mindset amongst thoughtful consumers like yourself only do harm. Like with other trendy foods that get popularized for health or whatever reason, it incentivizes the producers to raise the prices and when consumers like yourself accept that price, it sends a signal to them. The product then becomes too expensive for regular normal people to affo…
There are a lot of products that start as a premium offering and move downmarket as they scale. Computers and cellphones are great examples. That early adopters paid a lot for their purchases didn't prevent the emergence of less expensive hardware. It enabled it.
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I don't think it's inevitable that quality has to deteriorate. I buy all sorts of manufactured products that are perfectly good; competition in balanced, well-run markets keeps producers in line. And personally, I'm willing to pay extra for lab-grown. I'm sure they'll sell that as a health benefit; it's much easier to avoid contaminants. But for me it's about minimized negative externalities. I don't have to worry th…
You may pay extra, plenty might want the same for less - particularly if it becomes fashionable. We don't really have balanced, well run markets, so competition also produces cheap, profitable eco-catastrophes, either to sell a similar product for less - see US experience of beef farming. Or to turn a once wild-caught luxury food into a mass market everyday food - see almost all salmon farming. No problem - the eco-c…
I just don't hear many horror stories about people living next to, say, bakeries.