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Re: Increase in Seed Prices (OUCH!)



At 03:56 PM 10/6/97 -0400, you wrote:
>>>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
>>
Wow, if I have to get a dose of this stuff along with information on
prairie restoration, I may leave the group.  Whatever the reason, I am glad
to be informed of the rise in prairie grass seeds.

Joan

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