> What if all food was priced "optimally" in terms of foodmakers' profit, making it so expensive that half of society starves to death? Not to nitpick or take

> What if all food was priced "optimally" in terms of foodmakers' profit, making it so expensive that half of society starves to death? Not to nitpick or take away from your point but this strategy is extremely myopic and counter-productive even from a maximum financial utility for the food producers as it eliminates the consumers gradually for their products destroying the demand side and the market altogether in the process.