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Except it used to...You named two of the largest slave crops in history.


Also look into the banana industry. It is absurd the price that has been paid to make bananas as cheap as they are in the grocery store.


Bananas aren't a laborious crop. If labourers' salaries were dramatically improved, there'd be minimal retail price impact. The root cause is they grow and ship well from places with crap worker rights/alternative employment.




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