What I want from my government
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by Peter Green
I would urge the current administration to act now to combat high food prices, and not just by importing foreign food but by creating local, American jobs. America has to provide for its own basic needs such as food and wellness.
My proposal:
- employ low skilled workers in a government owned training company for a maximum period of 10 days. Hereby creating skilled labor for high Q companies and producing food.
- sell the produced food at a fair price, hereby forcing private companies to sell their products at fair prices as well. E.g. 1.70 USD for Q1 food instead of the current 2.30 USD for Q1 food.
- when the crisis is over, the training companies can keep their activities going and build up stock. Then, when prices start to get unreasonably high, government can offer food at a fair price, forcing companies to go under the price of the government. This will help new and old players and avoid an economical crisis for the consumers. When prices start to drop, the government stock should be taken of the market.
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"Ask not what you country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." -some famous guy whos name eludes me.
I agree with that quote but I don't use it as a holy mantra. When things advance in a wrong direction, and they are going in a wrong direction as we speak, government should intervene.
There are plenty of good paying jobs available in the U.S. for all skill levels. Your suggestion is unwarranted. Either the U.S. has a few Q1 Food companies that are simply selling out everyday, or private investors should look at opening one or more new Q1 Food companies to create some competition. Leaning on the government to solve problems that can easily be solved in the private sector is a bad idea.
If they could be easily solved by the private sector, we wouldn't be seeing 2.30 Q1 USD prices right now. I'm thinking about new players, low on cash and stock. What are they to do? Government should intervene when things go wrong.
@Peter, It was more of sarcasm for the tittle of the article. lol
Easily solved does not mean instantaneously solved. Even if the government stepped in it would take time to realize a price change, if at all. Some productivity calculations need to be done to determine what a decent Q1 Food price would be given the current price of grain etc. Hopefully you will get some comments from Q1 Food GM's that can shed some light on the subject.
It seems to me that the cost of any item, including food, is directly tied to the amount of pay demanded by the average worker. I have been hearing a great deal about better paying jobs. As the
salaries go up in the real world, the costs go up. Before thinking about the government starting up companies to produce consumer products (and therefore giving government control over not only the supply but the cost of EVERYTHING eventually) maybe we should ask WHY the prices are high. If it is because the salaries are high or the companies are just greedy we can proceed from there.
government intervention makes things worse. if people were smart, theyd realize theres profit to be had right now in the food industry.
So food employees make top dollar for pumping out something thats worth maybe 50 cents whereas everyone else barely makes enough to get by. I like Green's ideas - incentives to people to create new businesses in the food industry, though forcing private corporations to sell at a certain price is impractical to enforce, and will kill the industry eventually.
What we need is government grants and loans to people who wish to start grain and food companies. The "Training company" idea is good.
I was about to propose U.S. run companies to help regulate prices. Some people might be afraid that would be too close to socialism, I say even if it is - it works.
We need the admins to change the employee production formulas. That would be the best and only real fix to the high cost of food.
That is true, Denzins.
I don't think that's true. The only company currently selling food only put 70 items on the market but has a 1000+ stock of Q1 food. This is a deliberate attempt to push up prices, not a shortage of stock or production issue.
The issue is the production formula. eRepublik confirmed for suicidal tendencies
im trying to push out food at my company once its made, but as emerick said, the formula is the problem. my workers make almost no food per day, for one due to skill 0, but also due to the formula. id like to offer low priced food as often as possible, but it isnt possible right now
I understand that the formula causes a lot of problems for a lot of companies, but there are some older companies who have huge stocks and only sell limited amounts of food
Makes sense to have a FOOD RESERVE as the RL has an OIL RESERVE for cases just like this... I bet nothing will be done because the Ruling class does not want that to happen.
yes it makes sense to have a reserve, but it also makes sense to use it in times of need, and I think the time of need has arrived
I still do not think that Government run companies are the best solution to anything. Call me crazy but I have always felt that the best way to screw something up royally is to give it to the government. Personally I joined the game buying Q2 food and have never bought Q1. My only question is why aren't there 10 companies out there selling Q1 as there is for Q2, instead of the 1 I see out there right now.
its because as others have said, A) older companies holding q1 food in order to drive prices up, and 😎 newer companies cant get enough food out, and lastly C) people buy up all the q1 once it reaches the market.
these are just my thoughts, and as for government buisnesses, i myself think they are a waste, we are better off funding new companies to employ more people (pick me for donations! 😛) i have an ok amount of money, but i cant hire more people so i can produce more food due to not having a huge amount of money. if i had more, id hire more people, and as such produce more food, cheaply. i dont know if im the only one in the boat or not, but i think its the same with other newer companies.
would you accept cash investment in return for a part of the profit?
im thinking of doing that, ill get back to you soon on that
ok, I'm always interested in investing in the American economy 😉
I agree Peter.
Rather than just concentrating on the price of food, why not consider the root of the problem: low wages. Maybe a better government intervention is to create a government training company like that found in Australia, where citizens can train at better than market wage until they have a high enough skill to get something in the private sector for their work. So government would not compete with the private sector. Rather, it would be investing in the private sector by creating highly-skilled workers.