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Yes, bread is still bread, all those are still additives. They don't suddenly turn bread into not-bread. >"Artisinal" products today are mostly marketed that w
by donkeybeer 1y ago
Yes, bread is still bread, all those are still additives. They don't suddenly turn bread into not-bread.
>"Artisinal" products today are mostly marketed that way because in order for the product to compete on the market at a price the producer can afford to make it at and still live on, the product has to tell a story or have a clever marketing scheme or something like that because they can't achieve the volume of production that they need at a low enough cost to compete with mass-market supply chains and artificially cheap labor from other countries.
Correct, its no longer a sustainable business. How far do you want to go? Would you make nails by hand too? How about mining the steel for the nails? Artisanal today (not 400 years ago) is a luxury product born out of free time and our basic needs having already been met by industrial processes. The way to make it sustainable source of income is to do what the factories are doing, automate and scale up.
And why this over focus on producers? What about consumers? Why kill consumers to artificially enrich producers?
I care deeply about the middle and lower class. I don't want their expenses to suddenly rise several times because government turned what was a free choice and forced them into an artificially propped up expensive hobby market pretending to be a real market.
But let us not get too lost from the question. Let us first decide what is the meaningful distinction to our purposes between these two breads in relation to the matter of tariffs.
- ericmay 1y ago> Yes, bread is still bread, all those are still additives. Ok unfortunately I don’t think we really have much to discuss here if you think that. Our world views on products and economics are too different.
- donkeybeer 1y agoThey certainly are if you are so enamored by artificially making peoples lives worse. You still failed to explain btw precisely in what manner the differences between the production of bread at home and at a factory are relevant to tariffs?
- donkeybeer 1y agoWhy? Do you think alcohol for example becomes some Magicaniumsupernaturalum non-alcohol if its kept in an oak barrel for a few years vs being sold as is? Its still alcohol, the other chemicals are additions to it. If the other chemicals are gone, its still functional alcohol. If the alcohol is gone and the other chemicals remain, then its no longer a working alcohol.