>>I think that it's not just the hypothetical 'me' that will have to live with lower profits, but the hypothetical 'everybody else' as well. So that other guy will also be lost as a customer. The corporations are sawing the branch on which they sit.
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>Not if they're the only game in town, and that's where import tariffs come in. Where will you buy fruit for example, when they're prices are up 50 to 100 percent, and imported fruit costs twice as much as that?
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>Will you stop eating fruit to teach them a lesson?

I just might. Or I could keep on buying fruit, but become very picky about that, and at the same time opt out of other products.

But actually, the lesson is ongoing. Currently, the student is the whole cellular phone industry, which has lost several hundred dollars on our family, simply because they are so f'ng complicated that their product description is only about 20% description of services, and 80% to explain their scam billing schemes. So we're taking our time shopping around, and still haven't found any that didn't contain a hidden trick. "You get this phone for free" ... and when you click that, "sorry, not eligible unless you also take the xxx option at only $20/mo for at least two years".

Speaking of fruit and other edible greenery, I can't find a farmer's market here. Oh, there is a place called so, and it's in the open (under a roof, though), but it's not a farmer's market. You can't convince me that any farmer grows tomatoes, avocados, bananas and grapes and can sell all of them in the early spring. And I can buy imports at any grocery at a lower price, same quality. The other place where I found a "farmer's market" is along the road to Outer Banks, and it has 13 truck trailer refrigerators in full operation. I'm somehow supposed to believe it's all fresh :).

>I agree about bread. We have a few good bakeries around, but making one's own bread is far better. Besides, the aroma in the house when bread is even just rising is wonderful, not to mention when it's actually baking!
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>I don't do it often enough, but when I do, it's great.

Our poet Dušan Radović once said that "the bakers should charge passers-by for the aroma".