Re:How much do construction costs matter to the price of hou...
by kevin_thibedeau on Thursday February 17, 2022 @05:03AM
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Bread is easily produced locally or regionally from bulk materials. Processed meats are shipped hundreds and thousands of miles to the consumer.
Re:How much do construction costs matter to the price of hou...
by mistrial9 on Thursday February 17, 2022 @11:51AM
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as a consumer, I will walk to the corner store here in the California city, and I will check the price of a loaf of ordinary bread, and the price of a pound of ordinary meat, again today or tomorrow. Not "the cheapest rice by the ten pound bag" .. or "chicken parts whole in a ten pound bag" I believe my point stands.. yes, there are layers in the consumer markets.. times one hundred for a fast food meal, too.
If you look at pure flour, rice, beans, pasta, and stuff like that, there are lots of cases where it drops from prepared-foods price down to something closer to its commodity value. Looking up rice, it goes for $14/c.w.t., which I think translates to a little over $0.10 per pound. You can't buy it at that price, but you can buy a literal 1 lb bag of the bad rice for $1.00. Consider larger quantities and you'll probably see an asymptote to a reasonable multiple times the commodity value.
Meat will not follow those rules. The floor for meat is much higher due to the physical inefficiency of production. Even at that higher price floor, there are huge untaxed externalities. A lot of people know the reality that we have to eat a lot less meat due to halt climate change. I think there is a strong business and social culture for businesses to move meat at close to its price floor, with business models like fast food.