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> Of course, if all tomato growers closed shop and put their money in index funds, we wouldn't have tomatoes any more. But that would make the price of tomatoes
by creshal 10y ago
> Of course, if all tomato growers closed shop and put their money in index funds, we wouldn't have tomatoes any more. But that would make the price of tomatoes shoot up and the return on index funds crash down, making tomatoes a better investment than index funds.
Unless, of course, angry hordes murder you because they tend to dislike people who watch famines as a normal market mechanism and suggest diversifying into cakes.
- c0g 10y agoIt seems a dick move to murder someone for not growing tomatoes when it's pretty easy for the mob to just grow the tomatoes themselves.
- geon 10y agoI thought the gist of the article was that it isn't easy to grow tomatoes in a desert.
- sharemywin 10y agoPretty sure it was a reference to Marie-Antoinette and the french revolution.
- piaste 10y agoFunny, but unlikely. Farmers moving on to better-paying jobs is a process that takes decades, as we saw during the 19th and 20th century. It takes a sudden drop in the food supply to cause a famine.