So in class this week we have been talking about the economy and a capitalist sytel society. So I thought of this as a example for when one group pushes another group to be like them thinking it will make them better when in fact it has a mixed of good and bad. The video I picked show the cost of groceries in a store in Nunavut Canada. To me this video at first is funny to think that something like ice cream would cost $13.69 so to only see the cost here about $5.00 for it. It is really odd to think that it would ever cost that much. That got me thinking then as to why it would cost that much. This is what I came up with. A national world wide crises could make this up in price if the commodity is not being made anymore or the products used to make it are no longer available. It would also go up in cost the harder it was to store and transport.
That is where the high cost comes from. Nunavut is the farthest-north part of Canada. It is cold and remote. Most families make do with what they can hunt. But this is not getting them by as well with now living in towns with stories and new commodities. They are protesting to the government to help with the problem. To think I am one college student eating and complaining about the cost that I spend on food just for myself when "Meanwhile, a family of four on social assistance in Nunavut would get about $275 to $325 a week for food."(http://worldtruth.tv/nunavut-canada-insane-food-prices/). It really makes me wonder if capitalism and the economy is really the best thing for us to use. It makes me want to change the system to fix and work better for everyone but I do not know how to do that.
It does seem true that items that have to be transported further would cost more. But then I can't explain why milk is so expensive in Wisconsin, yet it is fairly cheap in Arizona. It is an interesting video showing such high grocery prices. I wonder if people living there make enough money to buy the things they need. It is hard to know what to do about families that don't receive enough assistance. I think there are so many different perspectives, but I also don't know the best solution.
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