The Cheese Index 1800% inflation

[Anonymous No.56396652]

Reminder real inflation is best measured by the price of a brick of cheese in a grocery store.
Why is that?
Cheese is composed of
transportation costs, to move it when finished
Energy costs - to operate electrical equipment on the farm
Basic grain/feed costs - which represent the price of farm goods
Cows who provide free food and do not represent a major cost for the farmer

What this means is that Cheese essentially IS the price of ENERGY - TRANSPORTATION - AND BASIC GRAINS
All things leftists tax the fuck out of. Thats why Cheese has gone from 3$ for 1400g, to 5$ for 1000g, to 7$ for 700g, to 12$ for 300g.


1400/3= 466.66
300/12 = 25


466/25=18.64x less cheese per dollar, which comes out to 1800% inflation over the last 2 decades, in Canada. That increase comes entirely from energy, transportation and basic grain costs. There is no way to decrease it except to cut carbon taxes, gas taxes and farm taxes.

[Anonymous No.56396717]

>Proposes a good metric for price tracking of certain baskets of goods
>Dilutes it by throwing in some goofy ideological shit about leftists
>Ignores the massive grocery store monopsonies that dictate cheese prices for both farmers and consumers
>Says we should cut taxes because clearly taxes are why the price of cheese has spiked, and not a combination of consumer panic during covid and outrageous greed by monopsonistic and quasi-monopsonistic entities

The psy ops get worse every day.

[Anonymous No.56396747]

>>56396717
Reminder real inflation is best measured by the price of a brick of cheese in a grocery store.
Why is that?
Cheese is composed of:
>Transportation costs - to move it when finished
>Energy costs - to operate electrical equipment on the farm
>Basic grain/feed costs - which represent the price of farm goods
>Cows who provide free food and do not represent a major cost for the farmer

What this means is that Cheese essentially IS the price of ENERGY - TRANSPORTATION - AND BASIC GRAINS

Cheese has gone from 3$ for 1400g, to 5$ for 1000g, to 7$ for 700g, to 12$ for 300g.

1400/3= 466.66
300/12 = 25

466/25=18.64x less cheese per dollar, which comes out to 1800% inflation over the last 2 decades, in Canada. That increase comes entirely from energy, transportation and basic grain costs.


Better?

[Anonymous No.56396779]

>>56396717
Canada has cheese prices dictated by the state actually, quotas on food they can only produce X amount to keep it *down* and its still up. You realize a crown corporation is a seized means of production right.

[Anonymous No.56396784]

>>56396747
Except the increase doesn't come from heightened costs. It's entirely a price hike by middlemen who can hike the price because of the existence of a monopsony.

[Anonymous No.56396812]

>>56396784
Thats just cope it clearly comes from the fact that gas used to be 50 cents and now its pushing 2 dollars. So weve accounted for the increase from 3 to 6 to 9 to 12, but we havent accounted for the shrink. That comes from energy costs, the carbon tax at the power plant.

[Anonymous No.56396828]

They are not making 95% profit on cheese. Its a bunch of milk stirred around in a vat until it gets hard, and some culture. It costs like fucking nothing to make from materials. Milk = free, cows need you to take it from them.

[Anonymous No.56397129]

>>56396784
That's just the excuse the feds use to keep the money printer on, while dragging grocery CEOs in front of a tribunal as a scapegoat.
Also monopolies exist because government regulation, making operations to costly for smaller businesses. You know we run under a quota system right? Farmers who produce milk, eggs, etc., over their quota have to destroy the excess. Otherwise prices would go down too much for the government to profit.

[Anonymous No.56397953]

>>56396652
>there is no way to decrease it except to cut carbon taxes, gas taxes and farm taxes.