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There is one pear packing machine and it may as well be printing money. The invisible hand is not very on top of things.

@breadandcircuses that they can still make money on this just proves that capitalism is a deeply flawed economic system. it's hyper-inefficient.

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buyers are stupid, too.

@breadandcircuses it's ok tho b/c sending things on container ships is super efficient and doesn't emit a lot of greenhouse gases
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44183-023-00018-6

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More precisely:

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@breadandcircuses so why is shipping so cheap?

@breadandcircuses The day I learned that meat from chickens raised in the US, is then shipped to China for "processing", before being sent back here as nuggets and patties, was the last time I ate chicken that didn't arrive to my plate still on the bone.

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Somebody needs to do an updated cost benefit analysis of off shore production.
Back when the apparel industry was moved from Alabama, one of the local papers did an analysis. The total cost of labor in a pair of Tennesse produced Lee jeans was one dollar retail.
I'm sure that it took Lee a long time to recoup the losses form the move. I'm sure that, in the meantime, they jacked up the price more than a dollar.
On US cars, the total labor these days is about $500 per new car....which is about the same as the executive salary cost.
BUT, China can sell comparable cars $10k and $15k less, why?

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Capitalism is optimized for imaginary units of labor/resources or has steep discounts on the labor of exploited people and resources.

It is not optimized for utility, justice, energy or any other such meaningful variable.

@breadandcircuses That truly is an egregious example of capitalism at it's worst. One would think that Argentina would want to expand jobs and opportunities locally by opening a canning factory in Argentina. But, it's likely a multinational corporation that's behind this trade example and they simply don't care.

@breadandcircuses but at scale!

@breadandcircuses stuff like this kills me isnide. Even seeing berries shipped from Peru at the grocery store on the shelf next to ones grown the next state away is crazy. Seems like a carbon tax would really cut down on it. Nobody should be able to pass the cost of carbon emissions on to victims of climate change, but that’s just business as usual.

@breadandcircuses What surprises me is the need to cut pears and put them in a plastic cup.

@breadandcircuses https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aH3ZTTkGAs has an explanation

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@breadandcircuses Because any other alternative would be communism.

@breadandcircuses Yeah, but it makes jobs.

@breadandcircuses so is non recyclable single use packaging

@breadandcircuses And that's because the cost of transport, fuel used and pollution caused is not fully added to the items.

Absolutely fucking disgraceful

@breadandcircuses @briankrebs cargo ships returning from Argentina will take anything. That’s what makes some of these counterintuitive transports happen.

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@breadandcircuses No more need be said. You nailed it right here.

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I'm curious how many were fed at low cost due to losses in this industrial supply chain.

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Yes it is! 🤣