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I gotta say they are spot on with the so-called "Red Delicious" apple. Every one of those apples looks and tastes like meal covered in wax.
"Red Delicious" were a triumph of labeling and marketing, much like LLMs being called "AIs" and shoving people out of work while doing shittier jobs.
Didn't red delicious take off because they were the most shelf stable? AKA profitable?
I don't think that's quite it. Originally they were supposed to actually be really good and really pretty - they only turned to shit as they got bred for other considerations. They got way worse than people remembered.
Shelf stable in a way where they won't take that much worse than when they're fresh off the tree.
Classic capitalist
Partially hydrogenated soybean oil slowly sickened and prematurely killed generations of people because it was shelf stable, too.
I'm starting to think basing your entire society on profit is bad