Food System Modeling And Profiteering

I’ve been doing some calculations on how to systematically feed a given population of people, from farm production, to processing, marketing and delivery. At each step looking at the number of workers needed, and setting a fair wage. Also accounting for startup and fixed costs to run each sector effectively, which reveals the amount of income needed for each sector. Many interesting takeaways come from this model, but most striking is what it indicates more broadly about how our corporate profit driven norm is unsustainable, inefficient, morally corrupt and of by and for just a few individuals. We could do better if we did not allow CEO’s and shareholders to constantly be skimming off the top, and instead require that all gains be invested back into the system, to increase production capacity, to increase workers salaries, and/or to lower the costs for consumers