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kleinbl00 · 3355 days ago · link · · parent · post: Is the local economy the solution to a post-capitalist world?
There are limits based on the values we assign to commodities. I bought a farmer's market chicken once. It was frozen and $26. It was not four times as good as Foster Farms. Bill McKibben relates his attempts to get local farmers to produce local bacon and discovering that they break even at $8/lb. Should we be paying $26 for a chicken and $8/lb for bacon? Yeah, we should. But if you give people a choice between paying what something costs to produce locally and sustainably or what giant factory farms cost, they're gonna go with the giant factory farms.