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Re: Increase in Seed Prices (OUCH!)
>>The root reason is much more evident: GREED.
>>Nothing less, and nothing more.
>
>Come now. Greed is good. Do you understand that when demand goes up,
>prices can climb? Desire for profit made this seed available in the
>first place. If someone offered you a raise, would you turn it down?
>You make it sound like it's bad that more prairies are being planted.
>Barter and self-gathering is great, but how am I going to seed my
>forty acres next spring? Quit my job and walk the meadows for the
>next two months?
The logic is fallacious.
There is a distinct difference between an ethical rise in prices which
reflects cost and other reasonable increases, and greed which in our
present economic system is directly related to this euphemism "demand"
which gives permission to rape the consumer. Barter, of course, is the
wonderfully ethical enemy of greed and demand.
The analogy of not accepting a raise is clearly not with standing. No one
has ever offered me a raise similar or anywhere near the rise in the prices
of these prairie seeds.
I would not buy products from a person espousing your attitude. I helped
save many a family farm in my time. I hope yours was not one of them.
D. Richard Kamus
>
>- John
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