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> So yeah, raise the price of asparagus by 21%, to reflect the actual cost of picking, or better yet have the owners take a 21% pay cut. Wouldn't be anything l
by bamfly 3y ago
> So yeah, raise the price of asparagus by 21%, to reflect the actual cost of picking, or better yet have the owners take a 21% pay cut.
Wouldn't be anything like 21%. Tons of costs other than the labor to pick. I'd bet it'd closer to 2% than 20%.
- kennywinker 3y agoOmg yes, i got fixated on the labour portion and forgot that’s just a fraction of the production cost.
- bamfly 3y agoEasy to do, even when people aren't doing it on purpose for propaganda reasons (which, you clearly weren't, from the tone of your post, but... it happens).
- anon84873628 3y agoThe article says that labor can be 50% the cost of asparagus
- bamfly 3y agoThis farmer claims it's about 50% of his costs. There are more steps before it hits store shelves. And price-charged is necessarily over costs for any non-failing business, so 50% (let's say) of costs won't equal 50% of the wholesale price even before shipping, storage, and all the profit and overhead of those are factored in. Plus, the same farmer said stuff like: "After all, he says, he cannot raise his price on a box of asparagus by 50% just because it was cut on a Sunday." Which makes me inclined to take anything he says about his business or this law with a grain of salt(ed & peppered grilled asparagus... mmm, delicious). Because that's both a blatant math fail, and a business-sense fail.