Comments by "Sedna063" (@Sedna063) on "Business Insider" channel.

  1. Rwanda to Ghana is more than 3000 kilometers... You would have to use powdered milk and then transport it through the DRC; a notoriously unstable region.
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  2. Yeah. And that's why even as a republic, those exhibits will still draw tourists. Just as Vienna draws tourists without emperors.
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  3. Fly in milk? Are you aware how costly it is to fly in milk? Air transport is the most expensive form of transport and milk is not a high value product that justifiably can be transported by freight jet.
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  4. gxd000 A German chancellor flying Boeing? No
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  5. 1. You are probably American. There are many other different models where the office of head of state bypasses the normal party system. And frankly, the idea that the nation is united by the monarchy sounds more like wishful thinking than any real thing. 2. Difference is, it is his family and typically does not include cousins and multiple generations for generations. Harry was bankrolled for decades by the British taxpayers purely because he was the Grandson of the Queen. And the position of head of state is open to anyone - not just a family that was lucky enough to keep the throne for so long. 3. Again - American system. In my country, the President does the exact same job as the RF with some more legal powers. Don't see why this shouldn't be open to any citizen. 4. Which state builts private homes for the ex leaders? And no, my country prosecutes all leaders... 5. Our previous president has been a human-rights pro democracy activist in former East Germany and worked hard to bring democracy to the people. He also made all the Stasi files available to the victims. Sounds like he did a good job for his country. Charles main achievement was wedding and divorcing Diana. The last 70 decades he has been waiting and making some speeches. 6. The taxpayers do pay some money to the RF (about 86 million pounds). And don't forget that until the 90s, their income from the Duchys were tax free. And we all see how well the monarchy taught their children. Charles and Diana, Andrew and Epstein.... They are just as faulty as we are. And they absolutely embarrased Britain to the world. I know quite a few Brits who do not feel represented by a family far in London. 7. What are the great achievements of the RF? List them? Except being born into the right family. 8. The idea that the RF are tourist magnets is wrong. Their collection of art and buildings is, but that is British property anyway and would be available for tourists either way. Same way France and Vienna are tourist hotspots even without royalty.
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  6. If they stop exporting, do you think the average cocoa farmer will have more? No, the buyers will just look elsewhere. Perhaps Cote d'Ivoire. Since the relative scarcity will raise prices, the Ivorians will profit and the farmers in Ghana will go home without anything in the pocket. Unless they form a cartel, nothing changes. But then chocolate isn't a business that is vital to the world. Chocolate is a luxury product and not oil. So any cartel would not have the same impact on chocolate the way OPEC had on oil
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  7. Or bars. Not the beans, the cocoa bars that can be used to further process into fine chocolare.
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  8. The manufacturers will find an additional supply and hence no money...
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  9.  @deuscoromat742  Colonialism is an easy excuse for everything. Not saying that colonialism was good, it was bad and crippled a lot of countries.
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  10.  @jackblack704  Nobody disputes that they need to be able to make a living! Prices for chocolate must rise. But the way some view this is just dumb. You can't just copy the western chocolate market and then hope to export it to Europe. That just won't work. Developing alternative chocolate products which are more enduring in Africa would be a way forward; as they would not face stiff competition from entrenched traditional makers.
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  11.  @deuscoromat742  It crippled others though..
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  12. Because milk is not a stable of Ghanaian cuisine.
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  13. How is this slavery?
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  14. Germany will begin its replacement of A340 sith A350 next year. And of course, they all have smaller planes too
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  15. So if we were not buying those raw materials, do you think things would be better? If we don't buy, Ghana won't have a source of income.
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  16. Transporting milk from India to Ghana... A journey by ship for weeks and more than 10,000 kilometers. This will make Ghanaian chocolate prohibitively costly.
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  17.  @doroparker1702  Absolutely correct. Milk should be a home grown product. Provides jobs for farmers. Alternatively use some plant based milk alternative maybe? Africa most likely grows crops that can be used for this.
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  18. Yeah, better focus to find a market at home first.
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  19. All the financial gains come from assets that belong to the British state anyway. Those won't go away...
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  20. Chocolate can be produced everywhere. Cocoa, not.
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  21. Not everything is CIA and MI6 lol...
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