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Just thought to share how much of our "healthy alternative brands" are lies. Some might not be aware.

Just thought to share how much of our "healthy alternative brands" are lies. Some might not be aware.

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[–] 4 pts 3y

Fucking globo-homo. All of these companies will congeal into one autonomous body along with whichever pharma company wins the jab wars. It'll be in the name of safety .

[–] 3 pts 3y

It's an interesting effect of Capitalism.

Large companies come to dominate the various industries. They accumulate massive pools of wealth. They enjoy economic production efficiencies of scale, and can use their market dominance to warp and shape market performance. However, they also suffer from inefficiencies of scale. They cannot effectively cover the niche markets.

This niche market gap creates profit opportunities for niche market players, regardless of how dominant the leading companies are in their respective industries. In a strictly Marxist understanding of capitalism, it is said all of the money pools to the top of the economy, and it is true that the majority of money does exactly this. It is held in the hands of a few.

Yet it is also true that money does flow back downwards. Marx doesn't discuss that part. The continuous buying out of these niche company operators is one such mechanism of this downward transfer of wealth. You can still start a company in your garage and sell it for $300 million dollars a few years down the road.

The roads to achieving real personal wealth in a single human lifetime are actually rather limited. There are but a handful of ways to do it, and none of them are guaranteed to work.

Starting a successful business is probably your best chance to achieving real wealth in your lifetime. Even then, the odds are against you succeeding. Many of those who have succeeded actually failed in several prior business attempts before finally getting it right. Some get lucky right off, but that is the exception, and not the rule. Minecraft buddy got lucky. His is not the average story in the gaming world. There are thousands of game makers who didn't get lucky. Just as there are thousands who have managed to earn a decent income without ever approaching mega bucks. This market too is dominated by a handful of larger companies.

Good for him I say.

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[–] 2 pts 3y

Yep the goal is to get big enough to be bought out.

[–] 2 pts 3y

They sell sugar, no big loss.

[–] 2 pts 3y

Toms of Maine sold out? Lame.

[–] 1 pt 3y

Annie's

(((soy))) is creeping into more and more of the products.

[–] [deleted] 1 pt 3y (edited 3y)

there's a lot of that in the health food industry.
white wave foods made silk soy milk. they sold-out to dean foods, 1 of the biggest dairy companies in america. morningstar farms is owned by kellogg's. herbal essences is owned by procter & gamble. kevita is owned by pepsi.
i've been vegan a long time. the health / vegan food industry is a racket. and every health food store owner i've met cared only about $.

p.s. "cruelty free" isn't always vegan. it means only, supposedly, the item wasn't tested on animals.

[–] -1 pt 3y

soy milk

Not a thing. Also why the fuck would you care about (((soy))) juice?

[–] [deleted] 1 pt 3y

I knew that Tom was a sellout and fuck that bitch Burt too. Anyway, thanks for posting that, it's helpful.

[–] 1 pt 3y

Yea! Capitalism. /s

[–] [deleted] 0 pt 3y

You don't look at the labels during purchase? Most are clearly labeled with parent company.

[–] [deleted] -1 pt 3y

Only jews do that.

[–] 0 pt 3y

Only knuckle dragging mouth breathers don't read the label.

[–] 0 pt 3y

only jews know and understand what they eat

Fuck off.