It could, but that would also affect profit margins. So it won't.
Well that's true but food doesn't fall out of the sky and no one is going to provide it for free. Reality is a bitch.
Correct. Food falls out of my fruit trees. Other food gets cut from the loins, or snipped from the vines, or plucked from the roosting box.
The biggest bitch of this reality, is how humanity all around us has forgotten how to feed themselves. Very sad.
Your fruit tree didn't fall out of the sky though. I don't have the time or desire to dick around with raising or growing food. I'd rather do my deal and pay someone else.
To each their own, though the seeds and fruits from my trees certainly do fall THROUGH the sky. lol
I realize it sounds like a lot of work, but it really isn't. 90% of all my labor involves nothing more than picking the tastiest-looking food to eat and carrying it over to wherever I'm going to prepare it at.
The other 10% is pouring water on things, or cutting up a cadaver into yummy crock-pot-sized pieces.
I love being able to code PHP on the same day I sell 50 bushels of fresh apples/pears and 10 dozen blue eggs from my backyard. However, I HATE having to change out parts in the truck on top of all that. I'd rather be doing something useful, like grading the local gravel roads to help reduce potholes (Hey! I get to do that too!

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