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Reminds me of that guy who was upset that Japanese farmers developed a fancy $50 orange and Chinese farmers got a hold of some and started growing them themselves, lowering the price to around $3
He wasn’t even Japanese
The one problem with this model is that the luxury farmers aren’t just charging $50 for every orange they grow, they’re only selling like 5-10% of their yield at that price and they just kind of don’t communicate that part. When the price bottoms out it’s typically because all of a sudden these new growers will sell all of their yield and even though it’s much cheaper, you’re paying $3 for the worst 90% of them. The best 10% are still unaffordable or may just become random chance for you to get good or mediocre fruit.
I think you’re referring to those new giant grapes?
Nope, but that’s probably true too
Ok, sorry then!
No worries, it’s all cool
This is what they are talking about: https://x.com/TGTM_Official/status/2067870163471573178
When confronted, one Chinese farmer smirked on camera: “Don’t you also hope that Chinese people can eat delicious fruit?
Wait, they’re trying to make this sound bad?? Anglos are so fucked in the head that they have the word “smirk” which literally means something like “smile but devious and treacherous”, I don’t think I heard of that in any other language
Won’t the starving fruit thieves think of the poor fruit barons?
$50, but only if they meant 50 Mexican pesos.
That was a $3 USD orange before they got cheap.
unlimited genocide on “”“industries”“”
Hey De Beers, yoink
Jewelers are still charging a ridiculous markup for manufactured diamonds but nowhere near as bad as mined diamonds. What I love the most though is that De Beers has pushed this narrative that mined diamonds hold value better which isn’t true because even though manufactured diamonds are basically worthless they’re sold so cheap they don’t lose that much value whereas the value of mined diamonds has collapsed in recent years and will probably only go further down.
