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That's not really the point though, it's not "we can't get Americans to pick cocoa for pennies on the dollar". It's that being able to leverage arbitrage of dif
by Avicebron 1y ago
That's not really the point though, it's not "we can't get Americans to pick cocoa for pennies on the dollar". It's that being able to leverage arbitrage of different countries labor is disproportionately a wealthy "man's" (corporation) game, and just because we can get cheap chocolate in the USA doesn't mean that the salaries relative to housing costs and the thousand other grievances are increasing at the same rate that the "gains" of this vast network would suggest.
EDIT: wording