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I kinda laughed at the "Capitalism hasn't delivered" line. Yes it has, the companies are selling food with the lowest cost to produce that they can legally sell
by freshhawk 9y ago
I kinda laughed at the "Capitalism hasn't delivered" line. Yes it has, the companies are selling food with the lowest cost to produce that they can legally sell and using collusion and marketing to avoid a quality arms race with competitors. I think they were just confused about what was promised.
- wil421 9y agoLaughed as well. Maybe Capitalism will fix it if they boycott inferior goods. I’m assuming they probably don’t have a choice.
- vixen99 9y agoOne choice is to make use of the plentiful local produce markets.
- miloshadzic 9y agoThe problem there is that the best produce gets exported. I've seen garlic from China in supermarkets for example.
- realo 9y agoAh yes... the infamous garlic from China in my local supermarket. https://www.google.ca/search?q=chinese+garlic https://www.google.ca/search?q=chinese+garlic Personally, I avoid it.
- gruez 9y agoThe google link you provided returns a snopes article about garlic roots, a blog post from McGill saying theres no problems with using human feces as fertilizer, and a bunch of natural/health food sites claiming Chinese garlic is filled with toxic chemicals. Is there any reputable source that says Chinese garlic is bad?
- vetinari 9y agoWhy do you need a reputable source for that? Why not just taste it? That enough of reason to avoid chinese garlic.
- miloshadzic 9y agoHad no clue this was "a thing". I didn't buy it because "I can't believe we're importing garlic bla bla bla...".
- izacus 9y ago> I think they were just confused about what was promised. What, exactly, was promised to population when Romania (for example) switched to capitalism and opened its borders?
- peteretep 9y agoNot much. They got to execute Ceaușescu, film it, and show it as a video at Xmas for at least a few years. The whole capitalist part was a sort of added bonus.
- bitL 9y agoFunny Ceaușescu was considered "too progressive" in Warsaw Pact and wasn't invited to all top-level meetings. I've read he even built a highway on top of mountains to have an escape road in case WP's armies invaded RO.
- cat199 9y ago> Funny Ceaușescu was considered "too progressive" in Warsaw Pact and wasn't invited to all top-level meetings. Don't have actual insight here, but 'progressive' to a soviet bloc communist would likely mean 'ultra communist' e.g. hard line stalinist..
- bitL 9y agoAlright, then "dangerously regressive" would be a better term ;-)
- vetinari 9y agoHe was kind of black sheep. In 1968, he refused to take part in the invasion of Czechoslovakia.
- adventured 9y agoNo doubt they were expecting meaningful economic growth. They got it. Their economy has increased in size by roughly five fold since they switched to Capitalism, with zero population growth. They've gone from a GDP per capita of sub $2,000 to nearly $10,000 in that time. And it appears likely set to continue growing nicely in the coming decade. I'd be willing to bet that in another ~15 years they'll get to near $20,000 per capita, generally something closer to where Slovenia, Slovakia and Czech are today.
- xtreme 9y agoIt's easy to pick on Capitalism, but I'd rather have cheap but low quality food on my table than no food at all[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s_austerity_policy_in_Romania#Food_shortages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s_austerity_policy_in_Roma...