last highlighted date: 2024-11-01
Highlights
- Like most systems, it’s largely invisible. The people in it don’t mean to do harm, they’re simply making choices that feel like their best option. And most of all, the system works to defend itself, to create culture that defends the status quo.
- The cheap beans are made into reliable, cheap chocolate. Chocolate that doesn’t melt in the store, or in your hands. Chocolate that’s sweet, not delicious. But cheap. The merchant stocking the shelves feels as though they have little choice–they buy the usual kind, the one that’s well promoted and inexpensive.