This is a departure but the chocolate thing reminded me... I used to get a catalog of really nice South American-made knitted goods. The sweaters sold for upwards of $400. The catalog said, it takes an experienced knitter several months to make one of these sweaters. So I wondered... they're selling it for $400, maybe they bought it for $200... so the knitter was paid only $200 for three months' work. Not much, at least not by our standards. I never bought anything from them.

By the same token I wonder about these little trinkety things we buy, like inexpensive jewelry, figurines, etc... they are so cheap at retail, how much did the worker get paid? (It takes time to string beads and I kno because I do it.) And if I don't buy some of these things, is someone going to go hungry?

Confounded again ---- KFC