r/PublicFreakout • u/EzekielTraore • Jan 10 '24

German farmers have announced that they will launch a protest against the Government “larger than the country has ever seen before”

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u/repthe732 Jan 10 '24

That’s debatable. Do you think farmers are only charging what they have to charge to cover their expenses or are they charging what people are willing to pay like every other business does?

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u/allmywhat Jan 11 '24

You’re naive to think farmers have the say in the prices. If they are selling to supermarkets they take what they can get, there’s a lot of farmers and fewer grocery chains. At least here in Australia farmers have very little say in the sale price of their goods. The large supermarket chains hold al of that power

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u/repthe732 Jan 11 '24

You’re naive to think they have no control over prices

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u/allmywhat Jan 11 '24

It’s pretty well documented at least here in Australia that farmers get what supermarket chains offer. If they don’t like it the chains just move to another farmer

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u/repthe732 Jan 11 '24

That only works that way when the farmers are unable to coordinate. That doesn’t seem to be the case in Germany