• lemmington_steele@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    you still need to sell the burger to make your income (franchising aside for now). no matter how monopolistic you are, there is always a demand constraint

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      1 year ago

      no matter how monopolistic you are, there is always a demand constraint

      Not necessarily. People can’t choose to not eat and some people simply don’t have any other options due to factors such as living in a food desert, not being able to afford better ready-made food, lacking either the ability, time or energy (often two or all three) to cook themselves and other limiting factors.

      Like with employment, the “free market” of food isn’t anywhere near as free or equal as “it’s just supply and demand” types pretend to imagine.