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Wasted_Weasel t1_iuf54op wrote

Just to add to this already great answers, there's also engineering reasons.
Think about the massive space luggage sorting machines occupy. You just see a belt with your luggage, but in rality this could get to multi-story level, not to say that in some airports luggage travles from one ent of the airport to another. HVAC, plumbing, cabling runs, all need to be easily accesible by maintenence workers, so just for that it easily adds a conventional story just for that reason. Think all the behind-the courtain stuff... Loads of administrative areas that you do not see are stacked on top pf another in semi conventional ceiling height.

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TheLuteceSibling t1_iuf4uu0 wrote

If you have a poorly formed lens in your eye, it won’t bend light correctly. By squinting, you focus the light like a pinhole camera rather than relying on your lens.

https://i.imgur.com/PiMO3n6.jpg

Your eyes get tired because you’ve got muscles that flex your lens, and they’re working overtime to try and fix the focus on your poorly shaped lenses.

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Shadowcat514 t1_iuf4u3v wrote

Oh, they did die. Henry II of France famously died due to an eye and brain injury sustained during a jousting bout. Wood splinter got in his eye.

>And if it was actually dangerous, why did they participate?

The recognition they would get was often worth the risk to them. The sport was dangerous, and people did die, but it was a relatively uncommon occurrence and they felt it would show their bravery and honor to everyone else.

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noonemustknowmysecre t1_iuf4m1q wrote

More people want it. People want it more. People have less to sell. Or people want money less.

>what can be done about it?

Price fixing. Generally called a "controlled economy". This has been shown to be a massively bad idea.

Support more people making the thing. Subsidies, removing regulation, making it cheaper to make the thing, bring in more workers,

Raise the value of the dollar (and/or don't let inflation happen). That's about as easy as not printing more money. With fractional reserve banking (banks can loan out more money than they have) you also need to raise interest rates.

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Zer0Summoner t1_iuf3zce wrote

I think an important factor in the current round of rising prices is when sellers in oligopolies detect that demand is a bit more elastic than previously believed, or in other words that consumers can and will pay more for goods, the prices go up because me want more money.

I think supply chain disruptions caused prices to go up during covid and the Ukraine war, but then once some of those disruptions started to go away, sellers were like "when he had to charge twice as much for these products, people paid it; why wouldn't we keep charging twice as much? Maybe we should try three times more, see if they pay that." Nobody in an oligopoly is going to be the one to undercut, they all just match. Hence, a rising wave.

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alzakarr t1_iuf3i2e wrote

I was a cheesemonger for 10 years. Cheese is older than writing so on some level it's guesswork to figure out how some things came about. The first blues were almost certainly accidents.

Cheese, in general, is a great environment for mold to grow, so to get bluing, you need the mold spores (and mold spores are EVERYWHERE, especially in cool damp places like caves and cellars) and air pockets. Most traditional cheeses don't have intentional air pockets but cracks will form over time here and there from weight, handling ect. It wouldn't take a lot from there to go "hey, I like the moldy parts" to "how do I make more moldy parts" and doing things like finding which cellars made the moldiest cracks, dropping from a height to make more fissures, and mixing in moldy stuff to try and get more. (Roquefort was originally made by molding loaves of bread in the caves and grinding them up into the curd) over time real recipes get developed and cheese gets made with with the intention of blueing it.

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javanator999 t1_iuf3bxy wrote

There are a number of different causes. Sometimes, something specific to that product happens. Like if there is a bad frost in an apple growing area and all the apple blossoms get destroyed, then the price of apples will rise as they have to be brought in from other areas.

Sometimes price rises are more general. If the central bank creates money faster than the amount of goods and services is growing, then all prices will rise, in roughly the same proportion.

Finally, a rise of price of one good can cascade through the economy. Russia was a big gas and oil exporter. With their supplies closed off, most industries have increased costs. They have to pass these costs along to their customers, so most prices rise.

What's going on now is a combination of the last two reasons and then the economic disruption of the Covid pandemic.

What can be done about them? Not much actually. Price controls just cause prolonged shortages. The high prices will bring in more suppliers and pricing will moderate, albeit at a new generally higher level.

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MsTponderwoman t1_iuf2r7w wrote

Then what’s true? Do you just like telling someone they’re wrong?

I find Reddit is often a terrible forum. Forums are for discussion or sharing ideas and information. When you’re the kid in the class or person in the audience who just wants to feel right by simply calling someone wrong rather than contributing your own answer, know you’re the problem and the reason why Reddit is a poor forum for ideas and information.

I’m perfectly fine with being wrong btw. 🙂 I don’t use Reddit to fluff up my (fragile) ego.

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