"Organic" Farming and the True Cost of Food-A Small Farmers Perspective

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128. Best post in thread!

There were other good posts but I give you my personal gold star for best.

The problem is not that ANYTHING is not cheap enough. Making anything cheaper means the people making it will also live in poverty. The problem is that anyone willing to work and working should be making a living wage. If we hadn't been reducing the wages of working people (and to a lesser extent middle class people) over the past few decades, this woudn't be a problem. But this is now a circular problem. We make stuff cheaper so low-wage earners can afford it, but that means the people making and selling the stuff have to have their wages made even lower, which means that stuff has to be priced lower yet so people can afford it, which means that the people making and selling it need their wages reduced yet further . . . and so on.