560% markup from raw material to finished product on the shelves. That sounds about ... fine to me? But was this a pro-capitalism/freemarkets post that I misinterpreted because this is Lemmy?
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Is he just selling the wheat? So you still need to thresh, seperate the chaff, clean it, mill it, make the dough, bake it, and stock it. Baking it is especially expensive I bet- power isn't cheap. Bread is one of the things I'm continually surprised at how cheap it is, considering how much work goes into it.
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pretty sure it doesn't take a kilogram of flour to make a loaf of bread, maybe a pound.
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Well he's getting there
For people who don't know how agriculture works:
Grainaries buy from farmers, high supply and low local demand. Grainaries generally don't have competition. That means grainaries set the price and farmers don't have any negotiating power.
The grainary is now in charge of one thing and one thing only: logistics. The grains need to be distributed over a vast amount of distance, usually by train or by boat. You almost never see a grain elevator unless it is adjacent a railroad.
Well whose fault is that, the granary or the railroad?
They're often owned by the same business, or cartelized interests.
In the US, during the oil boom of the early 20th century, the race to control the oil market was ultimately about controlling the storage and rail network. Rockefeller didn't become the richest man in the country by sinking wells.
Jeremy Clarkson is a racist, abusive piece of shit
That's a rough 65 ngl.
He looks better under acceleration
Your wording there needs work.
Jeremy Clarkson looks at his best under POWER!
It's hella odd moving to the UK because for the first time in my life I'm getting remarks on how young I look, meanwhile the hard water has made my hair look like if you got a bunch of cobwebs and lit a firework in it