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If you live in a northern climate, you have to rely on a very complicated and expensive delivery system that will supply you with this fruit that can only be grown in the tropics. And the only way to keep it economical is to create an economy where food prices are artificially kept low because first world countries systematically suppress developing countries that grow bananas into becoming stable economies that would actually provide better wages for farmers and workers who would raise the price of bananas.

We have cheap bananas because we don’t mind living in a world where we abuse farmers and workers to work for pennies to supply us in the first world with cheap bananas.

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Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
And just to rub salt into the wound, someone created a clothing store named after the political corruption imposed on those countries to accomplish this: Banana Republic.

I can’t think of what an equivalent would be in terms of offensive marketing, Starving Irish brand potatoes? A Saudi demolition company named after September 11th? A clothing store inspired by antebellum southern US clothes? I guess some companies still use imagery of indigenous people for tobacco products. That seems like it’s in the same vein.

Generally, I try to focus on how beautiful life can be, but damn if there isn’t a crowd trying to make it ugly for others.

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- ricecake@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Twin Towers wholesale outlet: our prices are coming down fast!
  
  Pearl harbor casual clothing.
  
  Jim crows bar and grill.
  
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  - tomenzgg@midwest.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    That last one is just something that could’ve realistically existed.
    
    …and would continue to exist, unaltered, well up until the 70s when, finally, it was modified due to growing public awareness; and only because of that.
    
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    LillyPip@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
    Sambo’s managed to barely survive until 2020.
    
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  - Mac@mander.xyz ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Our prices are falling from our hot deals but fret not: the melting point of steel… 🤔
    
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    qqq@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    “Jet fuel can’t melt steel beams” was probably a gateway drug for so many of the crazies today
    
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- lemming741@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I’ve always assumed I misunderstood the brands name but no one has corrected you yet…
  
  To the rabbit hole!
  
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  - lemming741@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Ok I’m back, it’s just ignorant assholes all the way down
    
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    WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Well that didn’t take very long… Disturbing how quickly you were able to discern it was all assholes all the way down.
    
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    Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Wow, thanks for doing the research! Did you find anything especially interesting?
    
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- IronBird@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  i’m stealing the demolition company named around september 11th idea, that’s actually funny as fuck
  
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  - ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    If our competition raises prices! … We’ll bring them down!!!
    
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GandalftheBlack@feddit.org ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
This is why bananas are cheaper in the UK than in Brazil

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