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You can get Columbian coffee for $7/pound in a grocery store in the US. It can't be that much different in the raw manufacturing costs.
by base698 14y ago
You can get Columbian coffee for $7/pound in a grocery store in the US. It can't be that much different in the raw manufacturing costs.
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- lwat 14y agoThe manufacturing cost is about zero but there are other costs, like transport.
- alberich 14y agoIndeed.... "There’s a reason coke and heroin cost so much more on the street than at the farm gate: you’re not paying for the drugs; you’re compensating everyone along the distribution chain for the risks they assumed in getting them to you. Smugglers often negotiate, in actuarial detail, about who will be held liable in the event of lost inventory. After a bust, arrested traffickers have been known to demand a receipt from authorities, so that they can prove the loss was not because of their own negligence (which would mean they might have to pay for it) or their own thievery (which would mean they might have to die). Some Colombian cartels have actually offered insurance policies on narcotics, as a safeguard against loss or seizure."(source: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/magazine/how-a-mexican-drug-cartel-makes-its-billions.html?pagewanted=all http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/magazine/how-a-mexican-dru...)
- hessenwolf 14y agoThis reminds me of the buccaneering articles in Rafael Sabatini's 'Captain Blood'. So nothing has changed, I see...
- StavrosK 14y agoWhy do people misspell Colombia like that all the time?
- pessimizer 14y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus Because in English, that second 'o' in such an awkward place would obviously become a schwa, and because the country's namesake is spelled with a 'u' in English, too?