I believe the increased demand for the higher quality mans it becomes cheaper. So instead of time efficiency turning into more meat for the same cost, it becomes the same meat volume but better quality for the same cost.

Highly redistributive taxation is a good thing (if properly done), given the high inequality in many countries. "Growing inequality" sounds innocuous but is really one of the root causes of the increasingly fucked up situation many people in developer countries found themselves in the past decades

Here it works without as much redistribution as elsewhere because the lower classes have good wages. (They are currently annoyed that the virus means they'll probably have to take their August vacation domestically rather than internationally this year.)