Inflation drives price of staple foods up more than 20%
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Summary
In this episode, I talk about why we don't want government to take control of our food supply and distribution, and why it's not going to help us get better at food shopping. I mean, look at what happened when the Soviet Union took control of their food supply in the 80s and 90s. People were starving to death.
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Look how inefficient government is with everything they do.
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The great example that's been pointed out quite often is a Tim Hortons in a hospital out east actually managed to lose money.
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How do you lose money in a Tim Hortons in Canada?
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Only government can manage to run a Tim Hortons so inefficiently that it loses money.
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Well, we don't want government then taking control of our food supplies and food retailing and food processing.
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I went to the Soviet Union when I was young at the end of the 80s.
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And I tell you what, nobody was starving to death.
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But food was not exactly of a broad variety or quality or decent price out there.
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It was, you know, again, everything was government mandated.
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And of course, if you really want to find out what happens when governments take control of food,
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when you get right down to the supply side, ask Ukrainians how well that worked out for them
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when the Russians took control of their food production out there.