Vickie Gray 🍁
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@mark@canuck.social So, I guess the insider’s view of the paradox you describe is that society has bought in to the idea that “prices” are the only measure of fairness, while the methods of lowering prices are justified by any means as long as “working class” people get what they want without ever having to think about the system that made that happen. In that system, ya, co-ops are a little more expensive.
If lower prices for “working people” is the goal, then yes, let’s make that happen by paying store, transportation, factory and farm workers poverty wages with no benefits, buying from agribusinesses that contribute to climate change through “go big or go home” monocultures kept growing using pesticides and GMO seed, and building monopolies that remove all selling choice from producers because no one else is left to sell to so whatever price the big box stores pay is what you get.
Mark 🇨🇦
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@mark@canuck.social
@graymattergrcltd@infosec.exchange I understand that it's not easy, I suppose the angle I was going for was more co-op and non-profit integration to try to hit economies of scale to compete better on price to become more relevant to a broader section of the population. To your point on poverty wages in the supply chain, even one of my local "organic" farms whose products are sold at many of the health food stores around here employs many TFWs..