I have distilled all knowledge of state-run grocery stores from every economic paper and every real-world example into this highly-detailed diagram:
Posted by abefrost
I have distilled all knowledge of state-run grocery stores from every economic paper and every real-world example into this highly-detailed diagram:
Posted by abefrost
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“The details of this are wrong, really it would…”
Please feel free to actually provide the actual research on this, I’d genuinely appreciate it. It may be surprising to learn that this diagram doesn’t capture *all* the nuances of why state-run stores are a shitty idea, I’m sure I missed a minor detail or two.
“I don’t mind the government trying new solutions”
This is quite literally one of the oldest solutions in the books, and it’s a terrible one. See: the Soviets. succs.
“how long did this masterpiece take you”
years
Motioning the mods to pin this post entirely cause i wanna check the discourse in the comments in a few hours.
I was touching grass for the last few days, are neoliberals in support of government-run stores? What?
Hypothetically, what if some government body like a city does a pilot program of state-run grocery stores? That would provide a great wealth of data on the successes and failures of such a policy.
What are the solutions to groceries being generally unaffordable? What can a city government do to combat the affordability problem?