>>2931690
>when you exhaust every legal method to optimize growing and picking, then you simply can't have $5/kg bananas instead of $10/kg bananas
What's funny is the US isn't even remotely close to exhausting 'legal methods', either. It's been the same problem for hundreds of years now: do you either accept the upfront investment for machinery/automation (both as a matter of fiscal policy and on the individual level), or lazily exploit cheap, available biomass instead?
The US civic religion is wailing about the moral evil of African chattel slavery while ignoring its modern equivalent for the exact same reason as before, convenience. They never learn, but hey, not my problem ig.
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