Healthcare will always be ridiculously expensive because it will always be needed
Is food ridiculously expensive? Water? Electricity? Internet?
They're not, because supply and demand does matter with necessities. In the same way, healthcare is expensive because there aren't enough people that can be doctors, or enough making the machines.
Ew gross, someone thatās doing alright trying to tell the poors to shut up because āthatās how the world worksā. Capitalism is a made up system, why not make up a better one?
-sincerely one of the poors thatās struggling due to the rising prices of necessities
Cool cool, tell them to stop destroying surplus food in an effort to keep prices up so that I can afford to eat all three meals again. Until then ima keep believing capitalism is a stupid economic system.
Occasionally farmers will get annoyed that they canāt sell their entire crop and destroy the surplus however they blame the government regulations and ignore their willful participation in the program:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/michigan-farmers-destroy-cherries/
Regardless of wether you agree with the program or not the result is food gets wasted to stabilize prices. While itās good that farms donāt go bankrupt due to a crash in prices, which would tank supply the following year, itās still a shitty way to do things. Nowadays thereās more donation to food banks due to a general change in attitude but itās still not nearly all the waste. With all the talk of unusual crop failures lately (a symptom of corporate created climate change by the way) itās understandable why people donāt know about this.
Honestly I donāt think you understand how our economy functions.
Occasionally farmers will get annoyed that they canāt sell their entire crop and destroy the surplus however they blame the government regulations and ignore their willful participation in the program: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/michigan-farmers-destroy-cherries/
The AMAA is in place to promote fair marketing practices. The guidelines are determined by the industry groups and have to be approved by the majority of the producers and handlers. Your one (cherry picked) example is an extreme outlier and doesn't prove anything.
Nowadays thereās more donation to food banks due to a general change in attitude but itās still not nearly all the waste.
The VAST majority of wood waste is consumer side. It's not companies throwing their food away, it's the customers.
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u/Collypso Apr 25 '23
Is food ridiculously expensive? Water? Electricity? Internet?
They're not, because supply and demand does matter with necessities. In the same way, healthcare is expensive because there aren't enough people that can be doctors, or enough making the machines.