Streaming service subscriptionsPer capita chicken consumption
American chicken consumption per person and global streaming subscriptions, both climbing for sixteen years. The Wing Wednesday and the Tuesday-night episode, often consumed simultaneously. Two American defaults, on the same upward path.
US per-capita chicken consumption grew from about 86 to over 100 pounds per person across this window as poultry continued to displace beef and pork on per-capita protein. Streaming subscriptions ballooned from a few million Netflix households in 2007 to over a billion subscriptions worldwide by 2022 as the streaming wars stacked services on the same household. Both reflect the same trajectory of household substitution: cheaper protein replacing more expensive ones, and cheaper subscription content replacing pay-TV and cinema. The same wallet, two budget categories.
The dinner and the show both got cheaper and more abundant. The decade was generous to convenience.
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