Economy Avocados get Cancelled

[deadshot138]

It's a pretty amazing example of how cartels are actually so weakened by eliminating drug policies that they have to chase income from much lower margin products to stay afloat.
Cartels formed with weed as a high margin ag product many decades ago when weed was criminalized in America and then became international powers by going for higher margin easy-smuggle products like cocaine. Them having to fuck around with $1 fruits vs $100 grams of powder should be celebrated as an achievement of their regression.

Breaking news: schizophrenic moron creates own tangent about sparsely legal weed crippling cartels.
They get into money making wherever they can find it. Be it shipping avocados, drugs or people.

 

[brackis1]

Breaking news: schizophrenic moron creates own tangent about sparsely legal weed crippling cartels.
They get into money making wherever they can find it. Be it shipping avocados, drugs or people.

What in your very small mind is tangential about accurately describing the product that launched Mexican drug traffickers into a quasi-nationalized syndicate upon which they could use their economies of scale to then dominate other margin-yielding consumables and then comparing the chronology of control across diff products vs. margins for each product?

You have no idea what the fuck you're talking about.
Do you even know what a cartel is by definition?
It's a broad economic term.
It's really not fucking hard: there are trade groups that work to fix price and promote consumer adoption of their products. The narco-criminal cartels started in the 60s and 70s because Mexico was a place to safely grow weed but for a black market product. They were actually growing a crop. Then they went to coke because it had higher margins, but only because they were cash-rich to break into that trade from growing weed. The avocado industry was not attracting narco-affiliated violent extortion until more recently, because again: historically the abundance of drug profits warranted keeping cartel resources tied up more fully in those trades.

There is a huge difference between narco-funded weaponized extortion of unaffiliated producers of a crop, vs. cartels run by actual producers of a product (ex. Opec)

 

[Loiosh]

Anyone else feel like you've accomplished a great feat when you buy a bag of avocadoes and actually manage to eat them all before they go bad?

The only thing I think I've thrown out more than avocadoes in my life is baby spinach.

I buy avocados three bags at a time.

I put two bags in the fridge. I let one bag mostly ripen, then put it in the fridge.

Every day I take one out in the morning and when I get home it's perfect.

I keep taking them out one at a time until all three bags are done.

I never lose avocados.

 

[Fugazy]

It's a pretty amazing example of how cartels are actually so weakened by eliminating drug policies that they have to chase income from much lower margin products to stay afloat.
Cartels formed with weed as a high margin ag product many decades ago when weed was criminalized in America and then became international powers by going for higher margin easy-smuggle products like cocaine. Them having to fuck around with $1 fruits vs $100 grams of powder should be celebrated as an achievement of their regression.

It’s not at all.

The cartels are still flush with money from weed, cocaine, heroin, designer drugs, meth, and human trafficking. They’ve been building super labs to make meth. They get fentanyl from across the world. This isn’t desperation and it isn’t new. It’s them getting their hands in everything and anything that makes money. The cartels aren’t suffering at all.

 

[Young Calf Kick]

Anyone else feel like you've accomplished a great feat when you buy a bag of avocadoes and actually manage to eat them all before they go bad?

The only thing I think I've thrown out more than avocadoes in my life is baby spinach.

the only solution is to put one or two of em in a smoothie every day.

 

[Ophydian]

Anyone else feel like you've accomplished a great feat when you buy a bag of avocadoes and actually manage to eat them all before they go bad?

The only thing I think I've thrown out more than avocadoes in my life is baby spinach.

Not bananas? Bananas will always go bad in my house. I don't care if the stems are wrapped or not.

 

[DespicablePeep]

californians and avocados, you sick bastards, you stick avocados in sushi, pizza, bread, salads

You people make me sick

 

[Ophydian]

It’s not at all.

The cartels are still flush with money from weed, cocaine, heroin, designer drugs, meth, and human trafficking. They’ve been building super labs to make meth. They get fentanyl from across the world. This isn’t desperation and it isn’t new. It’s them getting their hands in everything and anything that makes money. The cartels aren’t suffering at all.

Exactly. The cartels, like any good business, diversify. They are into things that we don't even think about on a daily basis or would ever think would be on their radar. If money can be made at it, the cartels will have their hands in it. It's no different than what the mafia was doing in the US.

 

[Ophydian]

californians and avocados, you sick bastards, you stick avocados in sushi, pizza, bread, salads

You people make me sick

They even put them on their faces they have such an abundance.

 

[EndlessCritic]

Not bananas?

Not eating bananas quickly enough results in banana bread.

 

[Ophydian]

Not eating bananas quickly enough results in banana bread.

Ya see we will freeze them when they get to the pure sugar phase but then forget they are in the freezer.

 

[Mark Hunts FIST]

I respect that. That’s a “big dick” move.
You want to intimidate our guys?? Fuck you. Keep your avocados.

I hope it doesn’t last long because I love avocados.

 

[jamel]

I bet mitt romney's family is involved some how or his church...

 

[brackis1]

It’s not at all.

The cartels are still flush with money from weed, cocaine, heroin, designer drugs, meth, and human trafficking. They’ve been building super labs to make meth. They get fentanyl from across the world. This isn’t desperation and it isn’t new. It’s them getting their hands in everything and anything that makes money. The cartels aren’t suffering at all.

Notice how you said Cartels plural lol.
There is TONS of fragmentation and intercartel warfare going on in recent decade or so, requiring feuding factions to reach into things like Avocados for cashflow. Don't confuse violence and headlines with the reality of market disruption.
Historically cartels were much more stable and focused on products that were explicitly illegal and high margin.

 

[brackis1]

Exactly. The cartels, like any good business, diversify. They are into things that we don't even think about on a daily basis or would ever think would be on their radar. If money can be made at it, the cartels will have their hands in it. It's no different than what the mafia was doing in the US.

"was" . You mean the mafia that had its heyday back when more things were illegal like booze and gambling? lol

Clear as day:
Weed crossing the border, once their huge cash crop, has plummeted.
https://insightcrime.org/news/mexico-crime-groups-marijuana-profits-dry-up/

 

[HockeyBjj]

Actually a good move considering how weirdly engrossed the cartels are in the Avocado business in Mexico

 

[Crom Cruach]

Organised criminals are well resourced and a blight on the population.

Libertarians might hate to see it but it's occasionally nice to see the State use it's power to teach scumbags who's the daddy.

Local enforcement will be ripping through that local organisation that made the threats. Local Bribes < GDP from Trade

 

[NoSmilez]

I swear Avocados weren't a thing when I was growing up. They are nice to eat outside at restaurants but they are not a home thing for me. I can never time the ripeness correctly and have to throw out unused ones. I just buy the mash in a small individual cup now.

 

[Crom Cruach]

If I could just stop buying avacados and take-away lattes I could be a billionaire.

 

[Ophydian]

"was" . You mean the mafia that had its heyday back when more things were illegal like booze and gambling? lol

Clear as day:
Weed crossing the border, once their huge cash crop, has plummeted.
https://insightcrime.org/news/mexico-crime-groups-marijuana-profits-dry-up/

Bro, the cartels have been into this shit way before Weed became legal in the US.