Diversification of Productivity

 I often refer to this odd development in society that if you 'want' something....you can usually find it being produced.

As a kid, if you walked into A&P (the local grocery)....there were basically seven sodas (Coke, Pelosi, Tab, Sundrop, RC Cola, 7-Up, and Sprite).  

Today, if you walked into Wal-Mart's soda area?  There are a minimum of forty different sodas there.  If you wanted some cucumber-flavored Coke....in Japan, they make it.  

If your kid went through some stage where he only wore dark green shirts and trousers?  You can find some company that makes the right fashion statement, and you'd bulk up on this trend (to make the kid happy).

If you like whiskey and coke already mixed and in a can?  There's probably a dozen companies that now make the beverage.

If you had some preference to watch some beefy gals (200-pounds-plus) dance at some bar.....you can probably find such a bar easily existing in Nashville or Dallas.

If you went looking for unique steak sauces?  Throughout the US now, I'd take a guess that well over 1,000 different sauces are packaged and sold.

Imagine a 60-year old sitting down and having a conversation with a 15-year old kid.....with some aim of discussing the more recent past, and how things appear today.  The kid would be shocked over the limits of the 1960s, and how much you 'suffered'.

Our prospective?  We never sit and view this past landscape, and rarely have an appreciation of a banana-split-chocolate flavored Stout (beer) (something that has only occurred in the past decade).