[raybbr]

"Today you can buy an iPad 2 that costs the same as an iPad 1 that is twice as powerful," he said. "You have to look at the prices of all things."
This prompted guffaws and widespread murmuring from the audience, with one audience member calling the comment "tone deaf."
"I can't eat an iPad," another said.

Oh, man. All the super-capitalists here on FR that use that argument every day are, well, looking as foolish as Dudley did...

[RBranha]

"Oh, man. All the super-capitalists here on FR that use that argument every day are, well, looking as foolish as Dudley did..."

It's not "super-capital[ism]" or even capitalism which is causing the rise in food prices. Much of it is due to what are most decidedly anti-capitalist: government subsidies, over-regulation, green energy boondoggles (ethanol, anyone?), monetary policy (QE, QE2), and generally too much central-government meddling in the market. To blame capitalism for the rise in food prices is to ignore reality.