It is because the world got that much wealthier. When you get wealthy you start eating like a king and not a starving peasant. GDP per capita in China in 1990

It is because the world got that much wealthier. When you get wealthy you start eating like a king and not a starving peasant. GDP per capita in China in 1990 was $320 A YEAR. GDP per capita in India in 1990 was $360 A YEAR. Then you get people posting on the internet about how bad things are economically, on a device that costs 5 years of labor of the average Chinese person in 1990. As if the modern world is just a given and has always been this way.