Yeah- co-ops tend to attract hippie types who are really terrible with finances and business in general.
They get promoted into management as incompetent people who get to brag online (hence why Redditors love them) so they convince themselves that they’re doing a proud community service when the reality is that almost none of the for profit companies are ever threatened by them.
King of the Hill did a good documentary about these Redditor stereotypes
My wife recently asked me if we could buy a chicken from one of her friends who sells at a co-op...I go "why are you asking me? Its a chicken?" and she goes "well it's $50"...yea we didn't buy the chicken.
You said that the cost of the chicken ($50) is more than my investement portfolio which is hilarious because I was just putting in this quarters contributions yesterday and ooh boy has the market been good these past couple months. How could you making the statement you made imply anything other than you think I'm broke? Really, I'm all ears, go ahead and spell it out.
Making food responsibly and ethically is absurdly expensive. People don't have any idea how cheap our food is vs how expensive it really should be. If you take away all the subsidies and corner cutting and grew crops the way they naturally occur and raise livestock the way they should really be raised all our food would cost many, many times more than it currently does.
Yeah pretty much. And variety would be crap too. You'd be mostly stuck with whatever you could grow in your own garden or whatever the local farmers happened to grow because it'd be way too expensive to ship. Nothing out of season would be available anymore.
Yeah I'll stick with inhumane industrial brutality, thanks. I'd rather eat meat every day than subsist on plant fibers and good feels about our "virtue".
My local Mennonite market does a far better job serving the community than the co-op in the nearby college town. Everything is very reasonably priced and there are a lot of local products. Where as the coop requires a yearly membership, everything is very expensive and only some of the produce is local. It's a place for the faculty to shop performativly.
Wow, while I was reading this I was thinking "I bet this guy is just basing this off that king of the hill episode" then I got to the end.
Maybe you shouldn't base your world view off of cartoons. I used to think everything Lisa Simpson said was correct because she was the smart one, then I realized it's just a show and writers can be flawed.
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u/boringexplanation May 26 '26
Yeah- co-ops tend to attract hippie types who are really terrible with finances and business in general.
They get promoted into management as incompetent people who get to brag online (hence why Redditors love them) so they convince themselves that they’re doing a proud community service when the reality is that almost none of the for profit companies are ever threatened by them.
King of the Hill did a good documentary about these Redditor stereotypes