[Jewelry making - Article 00007] - [Orchid] Feedback - Salesman with Loose Color

[Zen Sojourner]

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>             The old system in the USA of a gradual increase in price
>     of product as it passes from supplier to supplier is now broken.
>     Instead of three, or more, people in the USA making a little money
>     off one product as the product changes ownership, one person hogs
>     all the profit. 

    Funny ... I've always thought of all those middlemen as the hogs. 

    There's something really wrong with the delivery system when a
    farmer gets $2.50 a bushel for corn and a box of cornflakes is $4 in
    the grocery.... 

    Hopefully the people who do the actual work are getting a bigger
    piece of the pie, once so many middle men are cut out (and have to
    go find real jobs). The truth is we don't need 8 different guys to
    move something from one side of the country to the other (or one side
    of the world to the other). UPS does it quicker and for less. 

    Fewer middlemen mean people like me have a shot at working with some
    of the nicer gem materials, whereas before they were just priced too
    far beyond our reach - because all those middlemen kept jacking up
    the price of the raw materials. 

Sojourner

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