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I feel that it's fair (at least the bean argument): Say I ran a couple of farms which grew beans and employed 250 people to work on my farms. What would happen
by lucaspiller 10y ago
I feel that it's fair (at least the bean argument):
Say I ran a couple of farms which grew beans and employed 250 people to work on my farms. What would happen if my main customer Carrefour, one of the biggest supermarkets in France, decided to stop selling my beans and sold only theirs (grown and packed in a foreign country)?
I could try and sell to local shops, but it's unlikely they would buy the same volume as Carrefour. Or I could try and sell to another big supermarket, but they probably already have enough beans from other suppliers.
I'd probably have to let go of a lot of people, or even shut down the business, which would mean a lot of people would be out of work, and most likely relying on the welfare system to support them. So in return for a megacorp boosting their profits slightly, the country has to pay a lot in return to support unemployed people.
(How it applies in this case to Apple I'm not really sure though :P)
- briandear 10y agoThat would be your fault for basing your business on the support from another. Carrafour has no obligation to you. You're the one that built a business ignoring the real distribution risk of relying upon one company. That's on you.