From: Mark Grant (mark@unicorn.com)
Date: Mon Feb 24 1997 - 15:36:43 MST
On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
> 99% of
> the things people complain about the price of are luxuries (with the rare
> exceptions like the cost of rice in Japan).
As someone said on Usenet recently, "The reason why food is cheaper in
Hong Kong than Japan is that Hong Kong has no farmers..." The cost of rice
in Japan is only so high because of government controls which increase
prices to subsidise Japanese rice growers.
Mark
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