More fast food

So as I started in the post previous, competition for the right reason is fine but to make it solely a race for a buck is not in anyway positive for the human race.
When will we all realize that money does not drive us?
                       We create, we are curious and this is a positive it is discovery and progress when a person can follow through on a design, an idea, a question.
In the current system a large part of that environment is created by what we call money and or connections.It would also seem that a monetary goal is set rather than one based purely on design. The reason for this is built right into the pure capitalist system a system which could call "if it aint broke don't fix it" as their credo.
What money or wealth brings is not only that they might well be personally involved with people of inspiration and direction through out thier lives but also resources and time to act on those resources at their disposal.
To see how competition can ruin something  I looked at something basic and good.....Food..

Fast food has been around for thousands of years.

The idea of getting nourishment while on the move was not lost on our nomadic fore bearers.

Unfortunately the idea of giving good nutrition for tribal members on the fly was swapped for making something edible that made as much profit as possible.

Pemmican was a mixture of dried meat, fat and berries a perfect meal for the native Northamerican as he goes for days hunting or as a snack for the family as they traversed the vast open prairie.

It was also a way of having a surplus of food

preserved for an extended period of time.

The original beef jerky!

Well deer or buffalo jerky, dried meat none the less.

Not just meat though  they knew the importance of having berries and fat in the mix for vitamins and energy.

This the oldest form of fast food in North America but by no means the only old world fast food fare.

You find the very same thing in every culture, eating "out" is embedded in any town of size. When you experience this ethnic street food in it's cultural home you find it to be at least wholesome if not downright delicious and in some cases like falafel I had in Tel-Aviv, two or three in a row, the gyro's in Mykanos, purely addictive, the Mcdonalds sandwich?, yea right!

 The reason for this might be that ancient cities had to feed a large portion of the population on a daily basis at street level. it would probably not be haute cuisine but it would keep the population working by feeding them.   

Having a cooking area in your abode back then would be something for the very wealthy so eating out was about the only way to get hot food and even way back when the healthiest eaters were the people who lived outside of the big cities. When the middle class

Note that fast food means not just the burger places with drive thru, you can sit down at many "family" restaurants and recieve less than good nutrition.
The working man was for the first time able to go at will to wherever he or she wanted. I won't get into details but through the 40's, 50's and 60's roads were built not only in the populated areas of north america but also to the vacation spots and that included for the first time the national parks of both the US and Canada.

In our age we find it odd if a residence doesn't have a kitchen and the fast food joint was visited as a treat not as a staple and the fare reflected that.

No vegetables grease galore and the sweeter the better.

Then came the

70's

I was a little or at least a young lad in the decade of bad. Bad taste awful design and the economy went for a slide. The ads on TV for McDonalds were mesmerizing for a 6 year old and they even said that the burgers were real cheap. In my case Dad tried a McDonalds burger and we never went back, I did but not like others who would have two meals a day there. At that time McDonald's regular burgers were about 50 cents the same amount would buy a box of Corn flakes. 

In 2007 a box of flakes costs about $3.00 a regular burger at Wacko's is $0.89.

I know that cereal makes for a small survey but if you track food costs I'm sure the rate of increase would be close across the boards and cereal being processed you can imagine that fresh food will have a steeper curve in prices.
So is it any wonder you have a large segment of low wage earners highly obese in the inner cities of North America? 
Well it's not all economics but this is what has driven the cities more of America than Canada but still we have been getting rounder too.