Technology Companies and Cost Reduction in Critical Sectors

One of the most fundamental long-term drivers of dysfunction in any society is a decreasing likelihood of achieving what is considered a basic standard of economic consumption at that time and context. Put more precisely - the ability of sizable sectors of the population to access essential goods and services for their survival. From the European Revolutions of 1848 to the loss of Mandates of Heaven in imperial China, difficulty in the populace achieving some economic standard for their survival, whether it be rising costs of staples alongside urbanization or mass famine among the peasantry, has been a consistent major factor that has often been ignited by some catalyst to spark massive and sometimes fundamental (and/or disastrous) shifts in social organization. In contemporary American society, the most clear and alarming trends in unaffordability are seen in housing, education, and healthcare (although housing has, according to the below figure, increased less than wages, though this

One of the most fundamental long-term drivers of dysfunction in any society is a decreasing likelihood of achieving what is considered a basic standard of economic consumption at that time and context. Put more precisely - the ability of sizable sectors of the population to access essential goods and services for their survival. From the European Revolutions of 1848 to the loss of Mandates of Heaven in imperial China, difficulty in the populace achieving some economic standard for their survival, whether it be rising costs of staples alongside urbanization or mass famine among the peasantry, h