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When I drive around the city I see a Sprouts store and signs all over the place that say "Locally Grown" or "Buy Local". There's a reason for this. Every time
by coding123 6y ago
When I drive around the city I see a Sprouts store and signs all over the place that say "Locally Grown" or "Buy Local".
There's a reason for this. Every time you pay money that goes into the community there's a higher chance for local prosperity.
If we start eating beets from China some beet farmer may be rich and his family will definitely be happy. But why not buy local beets that enriches our communities.
So at some point Sprouts made the decision to instead of buying beets from a Chinese farmer, they will buy them from a local one. However Sprouts, as a national chain of grocery stores, could have decided one day to just make an extra $1 Billion by selling MOSTLY out of country food. They don't do this for 2 reasons - fear of backlash that all the food is from China and 2 these people do actually understand the local connection.
For some reason this logic does not translate to silicon valley companies. Those companies have made the choice that because of the price difference, it's best to buy it from far away. When you look at everything that's going on in the USA - the deep divides between rich and poor, between left and right - most of that is BECAUSE of economic inequity. If we fix the economic inequity, a lot of political shit will just go away. We have a reason to fight because things AREN'T going so well. Everyone has a different fix.
I personally think the fix is to come up with policy that Sprouts has: BUY LOCALLY GROWN.
The main reason we hear about the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer is because those rich execs at Walmart and tech companies are paying people in China, India and wherever else they can pay the lowest possible price and resell it to Americans. It makes perfect sense why the 1% is becoming richer and richer. And raising taxes on them isn't the answer - it's to stop the exporting of American dollars to sell shit to Americans. Duh?!