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Originally Posted by Agemegos
Do you think that's off?
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I had to check the math; my ability to keep track of orders of magnitude in scientific notation seems to be less reliable than I think it used to be. But the arithmetic seems right and not implausible, now that I've checked it.
Your figure seems to say that a person can afford 232,000 fast food meals a year, at TL8 quality, or somewhat over 600 a day; that says that bare food subsistence is around 0.5% of economic output. Of course they probably eat much superior food!
A quick online search indicates that the US spends about 6% of average household income on food. Presumably households in your future societies spend rather less.
Bill Stoddard