In Western Europe at least, the butter/olive oil line is also the capitalism works/doesn’t work line; I feel someone like @Noahpinion or @mattyglesias owes us a 5,000 word explainer as to why.
Okay here’s some BS I just made up:
Dairy farming involves day-in, day-out labor that inculcates a culture of hard work whereas olive cultivation is a lot of sit-around-and-wait punctuated by brief bursts of intense activity.
Therefore Butter People are better at Capitalism.
Antonio García Martínez @antoniogm
That’s dumb but I read a book once arguing Asian kids do well in school because of rice cultivation, and it’s not worse than that theory.
This thread really captures the American experience https://t.co/cvhvl8p5FI
Kavya Davuluri @Kavya_Davuluri