And with wat money? Your money and everyone else’s that buys meat. Not that it matters though, I’ll keep eating my meat.
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federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world 10 months agothe pig was slaughtered in the past, before I walked into the store or decided what I’m eating this week. everyone involved was paid before all that, too.
mellejwz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world 10 months ago
money can’t travel back in time.
mellejwz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
No it doesn’t. But money does allow them to keep going…
federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world 10 months ago
they are paid before the bacon enters the store
tweeks@feddit.nl 10 months ago
They wouldn’t kill, or even raise the pig if they didn’t count on the money down the chain. We indirectly but surely pay for pigs to be created / killed, for our consumption.
It’s fine if you don’t care about that or accept it as your standards, that’s your choice and fair in our current social context. Just realize the economics behind it.
federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world 10 months ago
all those people are paid before I even decide whether I’m going to buy bacon.
tweeks@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Yes, but they only pay those people if they expect to make a profit by selling the end product to you. You are one of the people who make it worthwhile to set up a chain of payments like that.
If they do not expect you (or other people) to buy the meat, they won’t pay those people to raise / kill the pigs.
Whether it’s you this time or someone else doesn’t matter. As long as there is a demand by end consumers they will continue. If no-one buys it they stop, it’s that simple.
federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m confident that pigs were slaughtered before the invention of money.
federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m not responsible for managing other people’s expectations.