Passionately Promoting A More Perfect World

serinemolecule:

neoliberalism-nightly:

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americansylveon:

ryanlewisandclark:

Seriously though, the amount of inherent ways I capitalism is garbage.

So, when bananas are regulated to the point where bananas are discarded for failing to meet arbitrary requirements, you blame capitalism. Brilliant.

I doubt it’s regulation.  Probably people just don’t want to buy misshapen bananas when there are prettier ones right next to them.

I’d like to see OP’s proposed solution here.  Tell grown adults, “You’re going to eat this ugly banana whether you like it or not!” and send government thugs to beat them up if they disobey?

I mean a simple solution is have companies buy them for a reduced price, have them sell for a reduced price Then people who are poorer can eat more fruits and veggies and others who dont care how they look can get a deal 👍👍 and companies can make some profit too

That’s exactly what you’d expect to happen.  For some reason, it didn’t.  I was speculating that there might be some weird psychological effect making it impossible to sell ugly bananas in the same room as pretty bananas for a profitable price.

But fortunately, @americansylveon came back with a source.  Apparently EU regulations require that bananas be “free of malformation or abnormal curvature”, but then specifies that class 1 or class 2 bananas are allowed to have “slight defects of shape”, or “defects of shape”.  Presumably that’s interpreted as a relaxation of the minimum standards? IDK how much of a defect is allowed.

Then they go so far as to regulate the number of bananas in a bunch. To which I can only say, “I hate the fuck government.”

@oktavia-von-gwwcendorff this is your sort of thing I think.

Keep in mind that in this case the cost of transportation may not make it economical to even ship the malformed bananas if flooding the supermarket results in a really high price reduction.

I’d also like to point out that socialism seems to be well-associated with widespread famine (cf. the story of Boris Yeltsin having trouble believing the amount of food in American supermarkets).

That capitalism leads to so much food that you can afford to throw out misshapen bananas seems to be a point in its favor.

@cymae-mesa We were talking about EU banana regulations when I visited you

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