The $3500 Shirt – A History Lesson in Economics

Re:The $3500 Shirt – A History Lesson in Economics by Turing_Machine on Sunday January 25, 2015 @01:26PM (#8943694)

"but it's dry, desolate, windblown, and hundreds of miles from any regions with, say, hospitals, or airports, or actual grocery stores, or land that can grow something other than grass, or other frivolities of modern living."

So, sort of like Southern California before the boom, then. :-) Except that there are areas in SoCal that couldn't even grow grass. If I recall correctly, several of the early Spanish colonies starved to death.

If you could convince people to move there, the grocery stores and hospitals would soon follow.

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Re:The $3500 Shirt – A History Lesson in Economics by cbd1984 on Sunday January 25, 2015 @08:39PM (#8945135)

Look up how cold Wyoming gets in the winter and tell me it's a viable place for a lot of people to live.

I don't like saying things like this, but unless you've experienced a zero-visibility blizzard which went on for hours on end, you don't know what rural Wyoming is like.

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Re:The $3500 Shirt – A History Lesson in Economics by Turing_Machine on Sunday January 25, 2015 @09:28PM (#8945268)

Look at how hot LA gets in the summer.

I'm from Alaska, by the way.

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Re:The $3500 Shirt – A History Lesson in Economics by cbd1984 on Monday January 26, 2015 @01:05AM (#8945722)

Summer temperature averages in LA aren't that much different from summer temperature averages across Wyoming. The big difference comes in the winter, where LA's record lows are in line with (or a little below) Wyoming's average highs.

> I'm from Alaska, by the way.

Coastal or inland? North shore?

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