>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, e

>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.