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>For example, I live in Ohio. Can someone explain to me why I would expect a swordfish steak or tuna steak or salmon to be cheap whatsoever? And that's still no
by throwaway0a5e 5y ago
>For example, I live in Ohio. Can someone explain to me why I would expect a swordfish steak or tuna steak or salmon to be cheap whatsoever? And that's still not pricing in offsets needed from c02 emissions. Chicken on the other hand? Yea that should be very cheap and very fresh.
Because global interconnected economy. The same business processes that figure out how to distribute all sorts of widgets to warehouses and supply house shelves and parts departments all over the country are being used to send a steady stream of approximately the amount of swordfish to Cleveland that people in Cleveland buy. It doesn't really cost any more to ship it to Cleveland than it does NYC. It's just a giant customization problem. Thanks to modern communications technology the dozen swordfish steaks that you and eleven other people will buy this week get to your supermarket.