In October, several prominent cheese farms in Southern England were robbed of over $500 thousand of product in what the Globe and Mail called a “sophisticated 22-tonne cheddar scam.” Closer to home, the RCMP “foiled” an attempt to rob a Vancouver Whole Foods of $12 thousand of cheese.
These are but a few examples of an ongoing world-wide string of similar heists, all with the same culprit—capitalism!
The past few years, high inflation has plagued workers and businesses alike, hitting items like cheese especially hard. But regardless of cost, people still hunger for the small pleasures of life. This has created a vacuum for discount luxuries, like cheese, which is being filled by organized crime and the creation of a black market for these goods.
Historically, the creation of a black market for common goods like cheese only comes about during an acute shortage, like in 2011 when a Norwegian dairy crisis led to several instances of butter being smuggled in from neighboring Sweden.
However, there is no crisis in cheese production. In fact, the global cheese market is experiencing “surplus challenges.” With each day that passes an additional 20 million lbs of cheese are produced.
This leaves no one else to blame but capitalism’s ravenous hunger for profit which has priced regular people out of their daily cheese and prompted a string of cheese heists. This whole phenomenon is just another example of how the anarchy of the market creates insanity in all blocks of life. For a healthy ration of cheese, and the return of rationality to life, capitalism must fall!
