"After all, the elite in Washington and Menlo Park appreciate the fresh grapes and arugula that they purchase at Whole Foods. Someone mined the granite used in their expensive kitchen counters and cut the timber for their hardwood floors. The fuel in their hybrid cars continues to come from refined oil. The city remains as dependent on this elemental stuff—typically produced outside the suburbs and cities—as it always was. The two Palo Altoans at Starbucks might have forgotten that their overpriced homes included two-by-fours, circuit breakers, and four-inch sewer pipes, but somebody somewhere made those things and brought them into their world. "
I would like to see a poll on the "elites" think the food on their grocery shelves comes into being. It certainly doesn't magically grow itself on the shelf....
It certainly doesn’t magically grow itself on the shelf....
Ask the average millennial where the food on grocery shelf comes from - might get some interesting answers.
Reminds me of someone from my past that always got lost driving- this because N was always at top of the map:)