• boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
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    6 months ago

    And what to do if everybody wants not apples but meat, produced in other countries and nobody wanting to process it in the own country? This is literally happening in Germany currently, at least there is something to stop that insanity.

    • Eheran@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      I do not understand how that has anything to do with this topic.

      The people in the other country do that because they want to, Germany is not forcing them, right? Germany moved it to them on their own free will too, right?

      • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
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        6 months ago

        It is a more complex “need”, there is a supply chain, and the “need” is destroying the planet.

        The people producing it may not be able to do something else, etc.

      • Rekorse@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        6 months ago

        Calling it force is probably the wrong word. Its usually the larger company/country approaching the smaller company/country with a business opportunity. There are cases of smaller countries essentially searching out larger markets for goods too, but in either case, both sides want to make money. The problem as I see it, is that the larger entity usually has more power with money and politics, and will push to increase profits as much as possible, without regard to the negatives that would affect the smaller entity.

        Even if there are negatives that affect a large amount of people, you dont have to pay off each person it effects, you just have to pay the government or get someone elected or whatever it is.

        America does it all over the world, we have a tradition of overthrowing governments for profit. Russia has also done it as well, and to a lesser degree so has China.

        The bigger the imbalance generally the worse off the smaller group is.