US Politics on Sidechat | Government ran grocery stores are an overreach of government authority and a waste of money. Instead we should be subsidizing businesses like Walmart/ Dollar general to put stores in food deserts, that way you get actual quality food at economy of scale

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Government ran grocery stores are an overreach of government authority and a waste of money. Instead we should be subsidizing businesses like Walmart/ Dollar general to put stores in food deserts, that way you get actual quality food at economy of scale

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Anonymous 8w

Fucking stupid

Anonymous 8w

Government run grocery stores are basically exactly your idea, but with less middlemen. If the govt gives businesses money, there’s room for both the govt and business to interfere. At least with govt there’s only one point of embezzlement

Anonymous 8w

Quick question, why do food deserts exist in the first place?

Anonymous 8w

the main place government run grocery stores are being proposed/trialed is fucking NYC where basically no subsidy could make goods cost a reasonable price. How many times have we have to try subsidize our way out of problems only for it to fall apart because the private sector’s perpetual goal is to maximize profit before you dumbasses appreciate that privatization and subsidy aren’t universal solutions?

Anonymous 8w

Dollar stored contribute to food deserts you fucking cretin

Anonymous 8w

Dollar general doesn’t even sell fresh food at most locations what the fuck are you talking about

Anonymous 8w

Dollar stores, the famously well stocked grocery stores that have so many healthy options.🥰

Anonymous 8w

Guy in 1870 saying this about government owned schools

Anonymous 8w

SLCYFN

Anonymous

#2 8w

The free market does not encourage them If the government subsidizes them then it will be fixed!

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Anonymous

#8 8w

But the business is more efficient since it doesn’t have to go through all the red tape

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Anonymous

OP 8w

Businesses aren’t always more efficient. Their priority is to maximize profits, not to maximize the number of people they serve. Businesses are good in a sense of the govt funds new technologies and businesses figure out which have paths to profitability. But not in a sense of “we want to maximize the number of people this location can benefit”

Anonymous

#8 8w

Well their priory isn’t even to always maximize profits long term

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Anonymous

OP 8w

If it’s a publicly traded company, it is their priority. They have “a fiduciary obligation to the shareholders”

Anonymous

OP 8w

“the main priority of a business isn’t to maximize profit” is a crazy take holy fuck you’re stupid

Anonymous

#11 8w

they’re saying that the goal of businesses isn’t always maximization of long-term profit. as a result of the structure of executive compensation, many CEOs prioritize short term profits at the expense of long term viability/profitability so they can hit performance bonuses and be paid more.

Anonymous

OP 8w

The free market encourages whoever can sacrifice goodwill for profit, we are in the result of an unregulated market rn.

Anonymous

OP 8w

Actually, the free market DOES encourage them. Food deserts are unattractive to grocery companies, since the people living in them tend to be low-income, and would thus not provide as much of a return to the stores as in wealthier areas.