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postedUpOnTheBlock t1_issx2di wrote

If you think of earths continents and countries as a whole, all prices are set for ourselves, by ourselves. All debt is owed to ourselves. When we talk about global food prices, really any price, reaching historical highs and how detrimental it all can be, I can’t help thinking how silly it all is through that logical lens. I know it’s not realistically that simple, but it still seems so illogically silly.

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jmlinden7 t1_ist9juz wrote

Prices represent trade of goods and services, currency is just a middleman.

It takes a lot of goods and services to create food and get it to people's mouths before it goes bad.

Those goods and services themselves require a lot of goods and services to create and get it to farms where the food is grown

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