Transcript · English → Chinese
The Evolution of Lobster's Value
这就是他们如何让你 喜欢上吃蟑螂的。
所以在19世纪，龙虾 被认为是穷人的食物。
为什么？因为当时它们非常多。
我的意思是，它们会 随便被冲上海滩。
那时候，农民们经常 把它们用作肥料。
但随后发生了一件疯狂的事。
你看，铁路 行业开始腾飞。
火车成了最新、最快的出行方式。 但这个行业遇到了一个问题。
他们必须为乘客提供食物， 而且最好是越便宜越好。
所以，还记得我说过龙虾
会随便被冲上海滩吗？
这意味着它几乎是免费的。
那些不住在水边的火车乘客， 从未
见过它们。 他们根本不知道这是穷人的食物。
于是铁路公司开始行动， 并开始推销
把它当作一种新奇的食物。
人们认为某样东西的价值 是固定不变的。
但事实是，某样东西的价值 是由掌控故事的人创造的。
而这正是为什么
同样的事情今天正发生在你们身上， 而你们甚至毫不知情。
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Original transcript (English)
that's exactly how they got you to enjoy eating cockroaches. So back in the 1800s lobster was considered poor people food. Why? Because there was a lot of them. I mean they would just casually wash up on shore. Back then farmers used to use them as fertilizer.
But then something crazy happened. You see the railroad industry started to take off. Trains became the newest and fastest way to travel. But the industry had a problem. They had to feed the passengers and preferably as cheaply as possible. So yo remember how I said lobster
was casually washing up on shore? That meant it was pretty much free. And the train passengers that did not live close to the water had never seen them before. They had no idea it was poor people food. So the railway companies got to work and started to market
it as a exotic food. People think the worth of something is fixed. But the fact is the worth of something is created by whoever controls the story. And that is exactly why the same thing is happening to you today and you don't even know it.
