He is right that people are being exploited somewhere along the chain, but surely the answer is to stop supermarkets making billions in profits rather than making food in an already struggling nation more expensive?
No more vegan sausage rolls for angloids
another polanski banger 
unlimited prices on the first worldreal talk though UK discourse on supermarket prices and operations is a heap of the most deranged talking points ever, even less hinged than US where there’s enough “naïvete” people come to normal conclusions like price controls and nationalisation. Aldi’s PR team did real good convincing all the talking heads to talk about specific prices instead of availability and wages (though i think that’s what polanski’s remarks were trying to convey)
Grocery prices are a total of shipping and handling, packaging and cooling, farm labor and store labor, and business profits. Below a certain point, there’s no way the workers are earning
Ultimately, the price of food is an indirect social relation of how much one person’s time can be bought by another person.
The solution to food affordability is price ceilings, public assistance, state-run groceries, universal access to allotments, or some combination of these. Prioritizing low prices feeds in to the capitalists’ framing.
In the very next paragraphs Polanski is quoted in support of free school meals and a £15 minimum wage. He’s not saying affordability is a bad thing, but that this market-mediated instance of it shows a need for change.
This seems like the result of managing (particular) post-scarcity with markets.
turns out that post-scarcity is just scarcity with extra steps.
The conditions will worsen
don’t think they make their money on veggies though anyway?
No, I didn’t think so either.
so billions in profits is not too relevant, it’s volume product to get people inside
