Comment Re:Trust (Score 1) 532
We are being robbed. We need to base our prices on the human effort required for extraction, processing, and distribution.
Why would we do that? Say I'm in the market for a beverage to go with my "generic Happy Meal." I can get one from the generic McDonald's for $1, or from home for no additional cost. Why would I give you more for a bucket of well water, even if drawing that bucket involved an prodigious amount of "human effort" on your part?
Or, say I want to mail a package. The post office will deliver it for $12.95, and Fed Ex for $16. Why would I pay you any more for the same? Even if you run a mayan courier service, and there's an equally prodigious amount of "human effort" involved in travelling from New York to China by foot, I'm entirely unwilling to pay you extra for lacking a boat.
You claim we're getting "robbed," but what you're proposing instead is far worse.