Would you pay $1,500 for chicken sandwich?

[healthmyths]

From an online post by Cato Institute researcher and editor Chelsea German, Sept. 25:
What would life be like without exchange or trade?
Recently, a man decided to make a sandwich from scratch.
He grew the vegetables, gathered salt from seawater, milked a cow, turned the milk into cheese, pickled a cucumber in a jar, ground his own flour from wheat to make the bread, collected his own honey, and personally killed a chicken for its meat.
This month, he published the results of his endeavor in an enlightening video:
making a sandwich entirely by himself cost him 6 months of his life and set him back $1,500. . .
.
The inefficiency of making even something as humble as a sandwich by oneself,
without the benefits of market exchange, is simply mind-boggling.
There was a time when everyone grew their own food and made their own clothes.
It was a time of unimaginable poverty and labor without rest.
$1,500 Sandwich Illustrates How Exchange Raises Living Standards

So when you grossly ignorant people primarily FFOs that have no idea where the meat comes from
for the McDonald's chicken now comprehend WHY the concept of a business that exists because of the desire to earn a profit from selling a chicken sandwich has made Western civilization the envy of the
rest of the uncivilized world?

You people that continually bash capitalism, businesses, i.e. like Obama does, do you finally understand
why you are able to sit at a computer munching on a sandwich that cost less then $2.00 that took little or
no effort for you to eat?
Maybe for the first time you'll recognize that your current life style is totally dependent on that evil concept ...capitalism!!!

Ah this is how they pay CEO's a salary in one hour that a worker that actually MAKES the sandwich makes in a year....impressive!

YOU are so f...king stupid!
ONE CEO meaning CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER responsible for 1,000s of employees and you equate the two???
YOU idiots honestly think a worker that makes the sandwiches could MAKE decisions that impact 1,000s of workers lives? Shareholders money?
Millions of dollars in asset management and YOU stupidly equate the salary of a CEO to a sandwich maker??

This is again is a great example of how people like you are so grossly ignorant!
Comparing the training, the education, the experiences of a seasoned executive who sleeps on average less then the "sandwich maker" because of
decisions that have to made that will affect 1,000s of sandwich makers!
But dummies like you NEVER see that because YOU are a sandwich maker and will never ever with that ignorance be anything more!

Management just rearrange the furniture every now and then. They are expendable.

Who then makes decisions?
Obviously YOU'VE NEVER been in that position.
Decisions as to where millions of dollars will be spent. Decisions affecting 1,000s of lives.
Who will make those decisions? The sandwich maker?

Yes, the sandwich maker can make decisions.

YOU maybe right that the "sandwich maker" after years of growth with the company and
experiences with the company becomes the CEO.

Obviously you are out of touch with reality as while ANYONE can make decisions... are they the right ones? Only education, training, experiences can reduce the risks that the wrong decisions aren't made.
But you being the class idiot will never comprehend that!

 

[NYcarbineer]

you might gripe about a 1500 dollar chicken sandwich

but think about the chicken

he gave his life

Even better...


Think of how much time and effort our ancestors went through for 3 meals a day

THAT WAS THE POINT! I grew up as a kid working with my brother and sisters in the 4 gardens my Dad co-oped so we could have food to eat!
We raised rabbits and chickens for food.
AND YES we worked hard to EAT!
Today as you point out less then 5% of our daily existence is required to make/eat food.
the other 95% WE CAN work to earn money to buy our McDonalds!
But it took the efficiency of the capitalistic motivation i.e. profit to make a hamburger that sells today for $2.00!

I bought a whole roasted chicken for $5 for dinner tonight. It was ******* awesome

But who raised the chicken? Who butchered the chicken and sent the chicken to the store? Who roasted the chicken?

Do you really understand the point here?
All those steps so you could get a $5 chicken and I am confident that idiots like you have NO idea when you ***** and moan about those evil capitalist,money
profit corporations how through the hundreds of years and trillions of dollars it is possible for you to in less then 15 minutes hand over your $5.00 and
drive home and begin eating that chicken!

Those idiots that complain about money grubbing evil corporations WAKE UP!
These are the BEST times and with all the continued rules and regulations that this Anti-capitalist, Anti-business administration is laying down,
there will NOT be the choices we have much less the opportunity buy a $5 chicken already roasted!

You can get a roast chicken at Costco for $4.99 (beating your 5 dollar chicken lol)

and yet at Costco the employees get excellent pay and benefits well above average in similar businesses.

Explain that.

 

[The Great Goose]

Ah this is how they pay CEO's a salary in one hour that a worker that actually MAKES the sandwich makes in a year....impressive!

YOU are so f...king stupid!
ONE CEO meaning CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER responsible for 1,000s of employees and you equate the two???
YOU idiots honestly think a worker that makes the sandwiches could MAKE decisions that impact 1,000s of workers lives? Shareholders money?
Millions of dollars in asset management and YOU stupidly equate the salary of a CEO to a sandwich maker??

This is again is a great example of how people like you are so grossly ignorant!
Comparing the training, the education, the experiences of a seasoned executive who sleeps on average less then the "sandwich maker" because of
decisions that have to made that will affect 1,000s of sandwich makers!
But dummies like you NEVER see that because YOU are a sandwich maker and will never ever with that ignorance be anything more!

Management just rearrange the furniture every now and then. They are expendable.

Who then makes decisions?
Obviously YOU'VE NEVER been in that position.
Decisions as to where millions of dollars will be spent. Decisions affecting 1,000s of lives.
Who will make those decisions? The sandwich maker?

Yes, the sandwich maker can make decisions.

YOU maybe right that the "sandwich maker" after years of growth with the company and
experiences with the company becomes the CEO.

!

Now THAT is defin

Ah this is how they pay CEO's a salary in one hour that a worker that actually MAKES the sandwich makes in a year....impressive!

YOU are so f...king stupid!
ONE CEO meaning CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER responsible for 1,000s of employees and you equate the two???
YOU idiots honestly think a worker that makes the sandwiches could MAKE decisions that impact 1,000s of workers lives? Shareholders money?
Millions of dollars in asset management and YOU stupidly equate the salary of a CEO to a sandwich maker??

This is again is a great example of how people like you are so grossly ignorant!
Comparing the training, the education, the experiences of a seasoned executive who sleeps on average less then the "sandwich maker" because of
decisions that have to made that will affect 1,000s of sandwich makers!
But dummies like you NEVER see that because YOU are a sandwich maker and will never ever with that ignorance be anything more!

Management just rearrange the furniture every now and then. They are expendable.

Who then makes decisions?
Obviously YOU'VE NEVER been in that position.
Decisions as to where millions of dollars will be spent. Decisions affecting 1,000s of lives.
Who will make those decisions? The sandwich maker?

Yes, the sandwich maker can make decisions.

YOU maybe right that the "sandwich maker" after years of growth with the company and
experiences with the company becomes the CEO.

Obviously you are out of touch with reality as while ANYONE can make decisions...

Now THAT is out of touch with reality. There is no way someone could work their way to CEO these days

 

[NYcarbineer]

you might gripe about a 1500 dollar chicken sandwich

but think about the chicken

he gave his life

Even better...


Think of how much time and effort our ancestors went through for 3 meals a day

THAT WAS THE POINT! I grew up as a kid working with my brother and sisters in the 4 gardens my Dad co-oped so we could have food to eat!
We raised rabbits and chickens for food.
AND YES we worked hard to EAT!
Today as you point out less then 5% of our daily existence is required to make/eat food.
the other 95% WE CAN work to earn money to buy our McDonalds!
But it took the efficiency of the capitalistic motivation i.e. profit to make a hamburger that sells today for $2.00!

I bought a whole roasted chicken for $5 for dinner tonight. It was ******* awesome

But who raised the chicken? Who butchered the chicken and sent the chicken to the store? Who roasted the chicken?

Do you really understand the point here?
All those steps so you could get a $5 chicken and I am confident that idiots like you have NO idea when you ***** and moan about those evil capitalist,money
profit corporations how through the hundreds of years and trillions of dollars it is possible for you to in less then 15 minutes hand over your $5.00 and
drive home and begin eating that chicken!

Those idiots that complain about money grubbing evil corporations WAKE UP!
These are the BEST times and with all the continued rules and regulations that this Anti-capitalist, Anti-business administration is laying down,
there will NOT be the choices we have much less the opportunity buy a $5 chicken already roasted!

You can get a roast chicken at Costco for $4.99 (beating your 5 dollar chicken lol)

and yet at Costco the employees get excellent pay and benefits well above average in similar businesses.

Explain that.

Alas, I guess the OP won't be explaining that anytime soon...

 

[SwimExpert]

I swear to ******* god, healthmyths you need to get a ******* shrink! You batshit crazy son of a *****, everything you post is so god damned deranged and fueled by angry spittle. For anything in your post to have any significance whatsoever you have to take humanity back to the days of being hunter-gatherers where we were more likely to compete with gazelle for our food than we were with other humans.

 

[NYcarbineer]

healthmyths has fled the interview.

He's fleeing the interview!!!!!!!!!

 

[mudwhistle]

From an online post by Cato Institute researcher and editor Chelsea German, Sept. 25:
What would life be like without exchange or trade?
Recently, a man decided to make a sandwich from scratch.
He grew the vegetables, gathered salt from seawater, milked a cow, turned the milk into cheese, pickled a cucumber in a jar, ground his own flour from wheat to make the bread, collected his own honey, and personally killed a chicken for its meat.
This month, he published the results of his endeavor in an enlightening video:
making a sandwich entirely by himself cost him 6 months of his life and set him back $1,500. . .
.
The inefficiency of making even something as humble as a sandwich by oneself,
without the benefits of market exchange, is simply mind-boggling.
There was a time when everyone grew their own food and made their own clothes.
It was a time of unimaginable poverty and labor without rest.
$1,500 Sandwich Illustrates How Exchange Raises Living Standards

So when you grossly ignorant people primarily FFOs that have no idea where the meat comes from
for the McDonald's chicken now comprehend WHY the concept of a business that exists because of the desire to earn a profit from selling a chicken sandwich has made Western civilization the envy of the
rest of the uncivilized world?

You people that continually bash capitalism, businesses, i.e. like Obama does, do you finally understand
why you are able to sit at a computer munching on a sandwich that cost less then $2.00 that took little or
no effort for you to eat?
Maybe for the first time you'll recognize that your current life style is totally dependent on that evil concept ...capitalism!!!

Make mine for about $10 hunting the game at wal-mart, the bread from the bread aisle, etc. I'm more efficient than this man.

Look dude....you didn't build that sandwich.

 

[mudwhistle]

What a ridiculous study.

When people live self sufficiently they don't pickle one cucumber. They produce in quantity, which means they eat a sandwich everyday. Just likewe get to for working 60 years at some ccrazy obtuse garbage.

Mass production lowers costs
Simple economics. ......

 

[Mr Natural]

He used a whole chicken to make one sandwich?

That must have been either a very small chicken or a very large sandwich.

 

[ClosedCaption]

you might gripe about a 1500 dollar chicken sandwich

but think about the chicken

he gave his life

Even better...


Think of how much time and effort our ancestors went through for 3 meals a day

This study says that it costed them $4500 a day if they ate 3 sandwiches. Durrrrrrr

 

[SwimExpert]

He used a whole chicken to make one sandwich?

That must have been either a very small chicken or a very large sandwich.

He didn't eat for 6 months, he was obviously very hungry.

 

[ClosedCaption]

you might gripe about a 1500 dollar chicken sandwich

but think about the chicken

he gave his life

Even better...


Think of how much time and effort our ancestors went through for 3 meals a day

THAT WAS THE POINT! I grew up as a kid working with my brother and sisters in the 4 gardens my Dad co-oped so we could have food to eat!
We raised rabbits and chickens for food.
AND YES we worked hard to EAT!
Today as you point out less then 5% of our daily existence is required to make/eat food.
the other 95% WE CAN work to earn money to buy our McDonalds!
But it took the efficiency of the capitalistic motivation i.e. profit to make a hamburger that sells today for $2.00!

I bought a whole roasted chicken for $5 for dinner tonight. It was ******* awesome

But who raised the chicken? Who butchered the chicken and sent the chicken to the store? Who roasted the chicken?

Do you really understand the point here?
All those steps so you could get a $5 chicken and I am confident that idiots like you have NO idea when you ***** and moan about those evil capitalist,money
profit corporations how through the hundreds of years and trillions of dollars it is possible for you to in less then 15 minutes hand over your $5.00 and
drive home and begin eating that chicken!

Those idiots that complain about money grubbing evil corporations WAKE UP!
These are the BEST times and with all the continued rules and regulations that this Anti-capitalist, Anti-business administration is laying down,
there will NOT be the choices we have much less the opportunity buy a $5 chicken already roasted!

You can get a roast chicken at Costco for $4.99 (beating your 5 dollar chicken lol)

and yet at Costco the employees get excellent pay and benefits well above average in similar businesses.

Explain that.

Sorcery!

 

[NYcarbineer]

I still can't figure out for sure what the point was.

 

[ClosedCaption]

I still can't figure out for sure what the point was.

I think he's trying to say that McDonalds should get as much money as they want because a chicken sandwich is expensive or something

 

[NYcarbineer]

I still can't figure out for sure what the point was.

I think he's trying to say that McDonalds should get as much money as they want because a chicken sandwich is expensive or something

well it starts like this in the OP:

What would life be like without exchange or trade?

You might as well be asking, what would life be like if humans were born with no arms or legs?

IOW, a really stupid question with a really stupid premise.

 

[NYcarbineer]

How could it cost him 1500 bucks if under the scenario he can't buy anything?

 

[NYcarbineer]

Where did he get the cow?

 

[ClosedCaption]

How could it cost him 1500 bucks if under the scenario he can't buy anything?

No one else owns or sells livestock, milk, yeast or anything. LMAO

 

[ClosedCaption]

Where did he get the cow?

 

[NYcarbineer]

How could it cost him 1500 bucks if under the scenario he can't buy anything?

No one else owns or sells livestock, milk, yeast or anything. LMAO

lol, apparently this is from CATO? This is why the words 'libertarian think tank' should never appear in the same sentence.