Tom Ritchford
1 min readJan 29, 2020

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While I continue to read your articles, the fact that you emit weird, wrong statements like this — statements that are easily verified as false, statements you never correct — makes your articles increasingly useless to me, as I can’t send them to other people.

Here’s a chart comparing meat costs, for example. If you claim, “Oh, this isn’t ‘decent meat’” then let’s compare costs of bananas, a food that is almost perfectly uniform across the world.

And here’s the thing — if you scale it by the average GDP per person, then food prices are actually fairly uniform over the whole world, and the US’s are some of the cheapest. The reason why people starve in America is not due to intrinsically high prices — it’s due to income inequity.

I wish you’d make some attempt to fact check and some attempt to make corrections. The fact that so many of your articles have ridiculous misstatements like this, misstatements that are mostly irrelevant to your main point, misstatements that you never correct, reduces the value of your articles by an order of magnitude.

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