@thatguyoverthere @niclas
Huh? We covered this just a day or two ago...
1910 prices/wages it would take 3 hours of factory work to earn 1 pound of butter, compare that to today where it takes only 20 minutes worth of effort to earn that same butter.
So quite the opposite the value has **increased** not decreased at all.
Where you get confusion is between about 1970 and today work place related deaths have dropped to 1/3 of what they used to be (far more so if we count from 1910). So while in 1975 it only took 12 minutes to earn 1 lbs of butter you did so with 3x the risk to your life. So today we simply pay extra for increased safety, which of course adds to cost.