Girl Scout Cookies Are Three Times More Abundant

Get three boxes today for the time price of one in 1933.

The Girl Scouts recently raised their cookie prices to $6 a box. This is up from only 23 cents a box in 1933. NBC Today wrote that “Nothing is safe from inflation — not even the Scouts.” It would have been more accurate to say ““Nothing is safe from the FED’s dramatic increase in the money supply — not even the Scouts.”

Fortunately wages have increased at a faster rate than prices. In 1933 blue-collar workers were earning 44 cents an hour. This would put the time price for a box of the tasty treats at 31 minutes. Today blue-collar hourly compensation is around $36.50 an hour, putting the time price for your favorite flavor at around 10 minutes. You get three boxes today for the time price of one box in 1933.

I’ll take a box of Thin Mints, Samoas, and the new flavor Raspberry Rally.

Tip of the Hat: Ed Kless

We describe the process of transforming scarcities into abundances in our new book, Superabundance, available at Amazon. Jordan Peterson calls it a “profoundly optimistic book.” There has never been a better time to create more life.

Gale Pooley is a Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute and a board member at Human Progress.