• FauxPseudo
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    1 month ago

    I have chickens. People refuse to pay $5 a dozen for our pasture eggs. Even though that’s cheaper than any other eggs in the area. I’m also sitting on a dozen goose eggs. A goose egg is three times the size of a chicken egg. They want to pay less than three times the cost of a chicken egg, even though geese only lay during the spring and only lay every other day.

    • @[email protected]
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      41 month ago

      Keep sitting on those goose eggs, when they hatch and you attack with your goose army they’ll all be sorry.

      • FauxPseudo
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        11 month ago

        It takes a full year to hatch them and then wait for them to become soldiers since they are only aggressive in the spring. Ain’tnobodygottimeforthat-meme.gif

    • @[email protected]
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      01 month ago

      I wish I knew how to find farmers selling eggs like you. $5 for a dozen is a steal. Do you wash them? Or go European style?

    • @[email protected]
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      11 month ago

      This is because people assume that you should do it out of the goodness of your heart. Since you’re not mass producing.

      Which is absurd.

      If anything they should be willing to pay you a premium for a high quality product produced in far better conditions.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 month ago

        no but see it’s about hierarchy. the factory farm is bigger than me, and so I must serve it and obey on its terms. the local farm is just a person. I bet I could take them in a fight. therefore they should serve me and all interactions should be on my terms.

    • @[email protected]
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      01 month ago

      They want to pay less than three times the cost of a chicken egg, even though geese only lay during the spring and only lay every other day.

      That’s not how markets work though…

      • FauxPseudo
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        11 month ago

        If they wanted to go buy a commercial goose egg that’s how it works. Geese eggs are rare. They take a lot of investment in time to produce. If you can’t recoup the costs then you can’t sell as selling requires time and time is money if you believe that labor should be compensated.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 month ago

          there are ways other than capitalism to support people who do stuff, but im guessing most of these people wouldn’t support you in those ways either, and it’s just a hierarchy issue.

        • @[email protected]
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          01 month ago

          No, that’s not how it works. You’ve provided a chart that shows average prices for a specific point in time. That’s it. They are constantly fluctuating, and the price is based on supply and demand.

          You don’t get to charge 3x for an egg just because it’s 3x the size. I mean, you can try, but people will not buy it unless that’s the equilibrium price. There is no rule stating that price must increase by the same amount as the size of the thing. That’s silly.

          A thing is worth what people are willing to pay for it. Goose eggs simply aren’t as popular as chicken eggs, therefore the demand is lower. Assuming supply remains stable, that means price goes down.

            • @[email protected]
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              Buddy, this is econ 100. This applies to nearly every business.

              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_and_demand

              If you look at the chart there, the equilibrium price is where the supply line and the demand line cross. Assuming supply remains the same, if demand decreases, the equilibrium price will decrease.

              If supply increases, and demand decreases, price goes way down.

              Wiki probably explains it better.

              • FauxPseudo
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                21 month ago

                Yeah, I took econ too. I’m just asking if you have any egg-bird specific experience. If you know about the details of dealing with each kind of bird and the complications that come with the different types. Anyone can econsplain. But do you have industry specific knowledge? Are you successful in this industry? Do you have actionable information that leads to success? Or if are you just repeating highschool level generalities.

                There is this idea out there that people shouldn’t take unsolicited advice, especially from people that don’t have any experience in what you are trying to do. So I’m asking the questions to see if you are offering anything of value or are just repeating things without providing that value.

                • @[email protected]
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                  11 month ago

                  So it’s not “of value,” because what… It’s not new and sexy to you? Sorry that supply and demand is so boring and predictable.

  • Lovable Sidekick
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    21 month ago

    Just 2 more payments, gentlemen, and this beautiful 12-slot luxury egg carton is all mine!

  • @[email protected]
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    1 month ago

    Bringing up the chicken shit of people amongst an avian fowl epidemic… sounds red enough. OP never has cared about the country so much as the problem of the day to push the people apart.

    But considering OP I’m not surprised this whole post isn’t dedicated to making Biden look bad. Even after the election. Their point is for you to hate everyone regardless…

  • Sakura
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    01 month ago

    Stop eating eggs. It’s literally animal period if that helps you

    • @[email protected]
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      01 month ago

      why couldn’t you have made literally any other argument against eating eggs? you could have brought up the conditions in chicken farms instead of this pointless appeal to whatever you were trying to appeal to

      • Sakura
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        01 month ago

        Bro, I am not vegan because it is disgusting. Which is why, I wrote if this helps… because for many people it does not matter how the animals are treated. There are an infinity of good amounts for going vegan.

      • Sakura
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        01 month ago

        you did not even write anything to support beeing vegan in the commetns. Thats kinda more sad than what I did ngl. But we both know who the enemy is. Those dead body eaters.

  • Ephera
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    01 month ago

    Random tip: Kala Namak is a condiment which tastes a lot like egg yolk. If you sprinkle it onto some cooked white beans, that’s kind of like scrambled eggs (well, it is different, but also good and might satiate a craving).

    Basically, Kala Namak is salt+sulphur. Egg yolk also contains sulphur, and well, sulphur is one of the minerals we should be eating anyways.

  • @[email protected]
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    1 month ago

    Them eggs is spensive cuz they real good ones. I gottem and gonna eatum with my limited edition cheese and laugh at the poors!

  • Blackout
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    21 month ago

    LPT: it’s almost springtime and you can find free eggs in the tree then.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 month ago

      Honestly they’re probably taking a loss to punish people who miss payments on their eggs. One person on the debt treadmill is worth a lot more than a few cents… Loans are so shady as an industry, the smaller they are the more they’re just looking to further exploit the poorest people

      Either that or they think the dollar is about to deflate lol

      • NoneOfUrBusiness
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        01 month ago

        Loans are so shady as an industry, the smaller they are the more they’re just looking to further exploit the poorest people

        And now you know why the Abrahamic religions forbid usury. It’s honestly a wonder the world managed to dig itself back into this particular hole again.

        • Count Regal Inkwell
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          01 month ago

          You forget that protestantism was basically invented from the ground up to be “Christianity rewritten to be extremely capitalist”