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All commodity prices are ultimately labor cost. No one else than people get paid! The cost of apples depend on the labor cost of apple pickers and farmers, etc
by BurningFrog 4y ago
All commodity prices are ultimately labor cost. No one else than people get paid!
The cost of apples depend on the labor cost of apple pickers and farmers, etc.
As a consumer it's easy to think of apples as something that "just appears" in the store. If you feel argumentative, that view is a way of dehumanizing the people working in the apple supply chain.
- Aerroon 4y ago>All commodity prices are ultimately labor cost. No one else than people get paid! And this is why allocating resources to improving the efficiency of human labor is so important. If a person can be get twice the amount of work done then the fruit of that labor is going to eventually be cheaper for everyone else.
- pydry 4y ago>All commodity prices are ultimately labor cost. No one else than people get paid! >The cost of apples depend on the labor cost of apple pickers and farmers, etc. This isn't true. You had to pay somebody for the land those apple trees are grown on and when you do you're not paying them for their labor, you're paying for their status as a land owner.
- NoGravitas 4y agoHow many apples does that land get to market if no one is working on it?
- pydry 4y agoZero. The same number of apples you get if you have all the necessary labor and no land.