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[gojiraeight]

Recently I came across this guy Chris Martenson and his Crash Course while continuing my research on Albert Bartlett's ideas of exponential growth in human population, resource depletion, and longevity. Martenson was referenced in an essay I was reading. Martenson is an economist using Bartlett's ideas to understand the current financial crisis and

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[pulnimar]

It blows my mind. "Substitution", and even the old way of measuring the cost of food as a "basket of goods". Time to go back to the mean. The vast majority of food products are bought at stores/restaurants or, to a lesser extent, are home grown. Take the gross income from food products from all of these stores and restaurants, divide by the approximate amount of people in the US (adjusting for changes in tourism), and get the actual "average" inflation of expenditures on food. Or make it even easier: Sample a few locales instead of all the restaurants and stores in the US.

Pretty major things in that movie. The lava lamp example seems very familiar for some reason though.

Very interesting. Thanks for the info.