06.25.08
Food For Thought
Why do we have more regard for companies than people? When the cost of oil goes up, we unflinchingly pay “fuel surcharges” on airline tickets and shipping so that companies don’t have to absorb the cost. Yet when food prices go up, where is the “food surcharge” for third-world sweatshop workers who aren’t earning a living wage to begin with? I guess they’ll just have to absorb the cost themselves. Even if I did get charged a “food surcharge”–now maybe I’m just a pessimist–I wouldn’t count on any of it making it to its recipient anyway. That’s just not how business works.