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Originally Posted by Wolven
I'm not. We just are not agreeing on the outcome.
You've already decided that the solution will fail because.... it must fail?
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I haven't decided anything. You're proposing something that involves a massive undertaking to accomplish, nationwide, if it were to work, and I am unconvinced that it makes sense because you haven't given me any reason to think it would. I would therefore not vote for it, and neither would 90% of the country.
I don't agree with Cowboy89 on much, ultimately, but this strikes me as pretty much correct:
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If you understand / have worked in the grocery business or food supply chain, it would be painfully obvious that the gross margins are very thin relative to other industries and it's not very likely that there's a role to play by government that reduces costs, while also accomplishing a bunch of sub-commercial goals such as ensuring local supply, increasing quality, paying higher wages to employees, opening stores in sub-optimal locations from a demand perspective, subsidizing remote region food prices, etc.
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In essence, this is like a quintessential example of why the NDP has relegated itself to irrelevance. Propose something pie-in-the-sky that sounds enormously impractical, and when someone points out that it's impractical and there's a whole bunch of problems that would need to be sorted out beforehand for which no obvious solutions are forthcoming, accuse them of being corporate shills "bending over" for capitalist overlords while casting yourself as enlightened economic revolutionaries. And no votes are gained and nothing of value is accomplished.