The Economy

4-5 hours per week is what he’d spend collecting dead ones on four houses.

 

If everything is more or less automatic like waterers and climate control, then yes if all you're raising are broilers for market. You just shovel out the feed, run culls (i.e. dead chicks), and off you go. Big Chicken shows up in 8 weeks to pick up the unlucky cluckers. All you need is space.

Mass-market laying operations are a different animal.

 

For the sake of clarity: I was the one misspeaking here. The economist in that piece was expressing his concerns about price signaling by Big Egg.

 

Triumph of the Egg.



Triumph of the Egg

by Andy Weir

https://xpressenglish.com/our-stories/the-egg-weir/

by Sherwood Anderson

https://xpressenglish.com/our-stories/the-egg-anderson/

 

The Egg and I

 

Have to say I'm gobsmacked every time I see some huge, fancy, bells-and-whistles TV these days and notice a price under $500.

I paid $1,800 for this two decades ago.



My dad paid $740 for this in 1976. Just in time for the Suns-Celtics NBA Finals.

 

That's me and computers. I saved up about $2,000 in the early 1990s to buy a machine that had a black and white monitor with drivers for 8-inch and 5.25-inch floppies and ran on an early version of DOS. I replaced it with another $2,000 computer with color monitor and Windows 95 about five years later.

Just recently I bought Gwen a refurbished Chromebook for about $65. Hell, my smartphone can do more than that first PC.

 

Ah, DOS.

cd/wolfenstein
wolfenstein.exe

 

Yes, by all means, corporate greed has nothing to do with any of this. Let's shut down access to something like pharmacies. You couldn't possibly hire a few more people and pay them what would be a rounding error to multi-billion dollar corporations.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2023/01/27/walmart-pharmacy-hours-cut/11134523002/

Walmart plans to reduce pharmacy hours by closing at 7 p.m. instead of 9 p.m. at most of its roughly 4,600 stores by March.

Roughly two-thirds of CVS' retail pharmacies at its nearly 9,000 U.S. locations will adjust hours beginning in March, Amy Thibault, CVS Pharmacy's lead director of external communications, told USA TODAY Friday.

My CVS pharmacy already doesn't open until 10 a.m. (the store opens at 9), and they shut the whole thing down in the middle of the day for lunch instead of staggering.

To be fair, the story does say there are staffing shortages. Maybe encourage young people to go to pharmacy/pharmacy tech school. I don't know anything about it, but apparently it would be a well-paying career with job security.
Also, I don't recall ever having to run out to a pharmacy after 7 p.m., but maybe some people do.

 

Short staff?

Maybe pay better.

 

A local university near me has a Doctorate Degree in Pharmacy that you can finish in three years. The median salary for pharmacists is north of $100,000 per year.