On Thursday, 10 May 2018 14:58:12 UTC-5, wrote:
> http://www.advicegoddess.com/archive....html#comments
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> Alkon says:
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> "A post by Steven Horwitz at Library of Economics and Liberty made me realize something I hadn't noticed -- how luxuriously even people of average income eat these days."
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> Excerpts by Horwitz follow.
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> Also, you may want to check out the comment by Conan the Grammarian - he included a link to an article about Boris Yeltsin's 1989 visit to an American supermarket (in Houston?) and how astounded he was.
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I love this, thanks for posting. At the time, Soviet agriculture was *really* failing, bread was beginning to be rationed, and the food sitch would careen steeply downhill from there; Yelstin later wept when recalling the incident (from the above link):
"Yeltsin, then 58, "roamed the aisles of Randalls nodding his head in amazement," wrote [Houston Chronicle reporter Stefanie] Asin. He told his fellow Russians in his entourage that if their people, who often must wait in line for most goods, saw the conditions of U.S. supermarkets, "there would be a revolution."
The fact that stores like these were on nearly every street corner in America amazed him. They even offered free cheese samples.
"When I saw those shelves crammed with hundreds, thousands of cans, cartons and goods of every possible sort, for the first time I felt quite frankly sick with despair for the Soviet people,€ť Yeltsin wrote. €śThat such a potentially super-rich country as ours has been brought to a state of such poverty! It is terrible to think of it."