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profit oriented industry, and government collusion.
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Two wolves arranging a kill is a conspiracy. In this case industry owns government so its even more of a conspiracy.
What can't be achieved by direct assault is always done via government intervention. Chemical fertilizers aren't cheaper until you count in the multi-levels of subsidies involved.
At the bottom of a carefully directed plan stand a bunch of numb nuts who wanna be rich, this doesn't make it a for profit thing.
More importantly the whole profit idea has zero merit in a FIAT world. The guys that run the printing press couldn't be less interested in money....