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>I certainly wouldn't want to buy coffee that was roasted in Ethopia; it would be awfully stale by the time it gets here. This is the play: hide the profound i
by bsanr2 7y ago
>I certainly wouldn't want to buy coffee that was roasted in Ethopia; it would be awfully stale by the time it gets here.
This is the play: hide the profound injustice in an offhand quip. If exporting from Germany is not a problem, why not Ethiopia?
Though, I suspect what would happen is that coffee roasted in Ethiopia would be somehow worth less than German-roasted. Ethiopians would recoup some of the profit that they're missing, but other ways would be found to shortchange them. The root of the issue is he undervaluation of Ethiopian labor and resources so as to secure profit and affordability further down the line.
- grecy 7y ago> Though, I suspect what would happen is that coffee roasted in Ethiopia would be somehow worth less than German-roasted If it was ever done, it would cost 5x or 10x more, thanks to the heavy sanctions placed on processed coffee exported from Ethiopia, but not from Germany. As another example, I saw endless fields of palm and cocoa plantations all through West Africa. Famously Japan allows imports of raw cocoa with a 0\% tax, though they tax finished chocolate products at over 280\%. This means Africa will never be able to sell processed cocoa products there, and are forced to be content selling raw beans for a tiny fraction of what they could be sold for if processed.
- bsanr2 7y agoEven without sanctions, even with equal infrastructure. They always find a way, not just to protect European profits, but to punish African ambition.