I worked in a Del Monte peach cannery in California while going to college. We had FDA “inspectors” in-house monitoring what was called “diversion.” They made sure that we threw away a certain percentage of the fruit going through the plant, literally tons of perfectly good peaches. They oversaw the weighing, logging of the weights and the disposal. The rationale was that by so doing, we kept the price of peaches “high.”
BTW, the cannery is long gone, replaced by the PIXAR Studios. Workforce was mostly Black. Guess their progeny are all on welfare now.
I’m noticing that as a pattern of leftist societal evolution. If there is a way to force people into dependence, they’ll impose that.
Payday loan to get you through, or go on welfare.
Gov’t chooses to put payday loans out of business, leaving people with welfare.