Swiss Cheese Cartel
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2024
- A short video on product cartels
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Swiss Cheese Cartel Transcript:
Everyone likes things, but things cost money, thankfully under normal trade money can be exchanged for goods and services, but what happens when one person or group controls all of the supply of a certain thing? That’s when you get a cartel, no not that type of cartel but similar, in economics a cartel is an organisation between a group of producers to limit supply and artificially drive prices up. These so called product cartels are actually a lot more common than you think because its surprisingly easy to just make some backdoor deals with other industry giants to make a lot of money. And that’s what todays video is going to be all about, we are going to be looking at some of these shady organisations and dealings that led to product cartels like the Swiss cheese cartel. The swiss cheese cartel formally known as the swiss cheese union basically ruled the whole of the swiss cheese industry for about 100 years, yes that’s right this alphorn blowing little child used to control an industry that at one point used to cost the swiss government more than its entire military. But lets start at the beginning, its 1914, WW1 is going to break out and Europe is going to be completely destroyed, but thankfully due to switzerlands neutral position (make cheese not war) the price of cheese was pretty stable even though exports did slightly decrease. And Even though things could have been a lot worse, they could have also been a lot better thought the swiss cheese manufacturers who decided to create the swiss cheese union in 1914 to collude with other manufacturers and create strict non-compete laws, they also told dairy farmers exactly how much milk to produce and who to sell it to and told cheesemakers exactly how much cheese to make aswell as how much to sell it for. The Union basically controlled the entire cheese industry from cow to milk to cheese to store. Now, originally there were around 1000 plus different kinds of cheeses that used to be produced, which if you are trying to control an entire industry is a lot of paperwork and because there was no Microsoft excel this would lead to a lot of delays and mistakes which is, not gouda for business hehe. So they reduced the amount of cheeses produced to only just a few, mostly just gruyere and Emmental (emontal) which obviously meant that instead of a small amount of a lot of varied cheeses you had mountains of just a few cheeses, which presented its own problems. Namely getting rid of all of this cheese. But thankfully the Swiss cheese union had a solution for that too, fraud. I feel like fraud sometimes gets a bad rep, its always been there for me when I needed it the most and… I mean we completely disavow fraudulent activities on the stoic stick channel and comply with all necessary laws and guidelines. (sigh) okay anyway cheese fraud. The union had to basically hold up the entire dairy market by buying dairy with money that they got from government subsidies. These purchases artificially kept up the prices of milk and cheese which meant that dairy farmers and cheesemakers had guaranteed income, securing income of their primary producers, which is actually a pretty smart thing to do. This did however mean that, sweet mother of pearl that’s a lot of cheese. That there was a little bit of a backlog of cheese. The swiss cheese union needed to get rid of all this cheese and the only way they could do that was by encouraging people to eat more cheese, how did they go about doing this? By Make tastier cheeses? Decreasing prices? No don’t be silly, mass propaganda and marketing tricks to make people associate fondue- a cheese dish that heavily used gruyere cheese, as the national dish of Switzerland. And, it worked, in the 1930s they ramped up the fondue psyop to the masses and like usual they lapped it up (subscribe now) so much so that the dish was now associated with national pride becoming one of the national dishes of Switzerland. So snow is blowing cheese is flowing and profits were growing. Life is great, well not if you are a cheese rebel that is. That’s right there were cheese rebels, who sought to oppose the monopoly and monoculture of cheese production that the cartels had created. Most famous of which was a man called Sepp Barmettler, an apt name for a man who was going to meddle with the big cheese. He wanted to add another variety of cheese production into the mainstream and spent 8 years sending applications and pestering the union to accept his newer softer Sbrinz cheese. They of course denied his applications replying to him in a letter that said “ you do not fit into the envisaged structures.” Which has no reason to go as hard as it does, but best believe I will be using this in as many scenarios as I can.
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You'd better have good protection for your family if you're going at the swiss cartel
Italian here, parmigiano reggiano is a sort of cheese cartel, only members can produce it, even if the producer is from the same area as DOP product.
isn't everything a cartel in italy?
I'm inclined to just let the Mafia keep doing what it's doing there. P.Reggiano, cut off the wheel, is like the best cheese on the planet.
Swiss cheese, or Gruyere (fancy shmancy goat cheese) doesn't even hold a candle to that fire.
That being said, Champagne has to grown from the Champagne region of France or it's called sparkling wine. Roquefort, same thing, or else it's just called Bleu cheese (or gorgonzola to you's italiano's guys). So the protectionism isn't unheard of or unique
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About the ligthbulbs. It's more complicated than that. You can easily make an incandescent lightbulb last a long time, but it won't be very bright. If you ever look at the lightbulbs that have lasted 100 years or more you will see that they all aren't very bright. There is a tradeoff between lifespan, brightness and energy efficiency and the sweet spot was where the "cartel" set it at.
So America wasn’t the only country with a cheese problem
Honorable mention goes to:
- The Quebec Maple Syrup Producers
- The California Raisin Reserve
- Luxottica Group S.p.A
- The Ivory Coast-Ghana Cocoa Initiative
Also I guess that those gulf oil countries need to be mentioned too.
Very interesting. As a Swiss, I didn't know how deep that went. Btw, we also had a beer cartel (which also had rebels).
That cartel executioner drawing complete with CJNG written on it makes me thing you've been watchin the same fcked up videos as I did.
Anyone ever wondered why every working class person depicted as Homless Norm? Yeah, me too
Its easier to hire homeless norm he works for below minimum wage.
Literally my favorite kind of cheese
I love cheese
The best Sam o Nella has posted again
Sbrinz is actually goated
WE STUDYING FOR A LEVEL ECONOMICS WITH THIS ONE 🔥🔥🔥
Always look forward to these videos
very elated to know about the fall of de beers
So it's not that I disagree with you on the lab grown diamonds thing but like... I opened their front page and the very first thing you see is a 600 euros ring (so like 690 burger money)
From the frying pan into the fire as one may say
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I want to learn Spinjitzu.
Do a video about the us milk cartel. Story goes crazy
This comapany lives off our prime minister Wallace sorry i mean Keir Starmer
Thank you for the reminder to once again Preoder Battletoads for the Wii.
Stoic I am begging you the cartel will send a hitsquad to you unless you make a video on fraudmaxxing
We NEED the fraudmaxxing video. If everyone comits fraud, they can't arrest us all.
Finally [Thank you]
drinking game: take a shot stoic stick says cheese
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You forgot the Coke cartel
Both drink and powder
How is lobbying the government not a state sanctioned cartel then?
Battle toads cartel sound off 🗣️📣
Actually, the lightbulbs with the lower lifespan saved money because they were brighter at the same current, so you could make also a light bulb that was as brigt but uses less electricity. Over the life span of the bulb that saved more money than the cost of the bulb.
It´s as if a $3, 15 watt LED Bulb (which is the equivalent in brightness to a 100 watt incandescent bulb) lasted only ´500 hours. It would still be cheaper than buying a 100 watt incandescent bulb because over it´s lifespan it would save more money than is needed to buy the next one.
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the real reason the swiss were neutral was so they could sell more cheese
Im here because I saw a tierlist video saying this guy was good
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Here for the cheese frog
As a a cheese this video is very cartel
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I've always pronounced it as KWY-NINE (like kawaii slurred together). I've heard it said QWi-nin but never QWi-NINE.
I guess I've never heard KWY-nin either.
You from SW London?
Cecil Rhodes died in 1902
Can we get a follow up on the Cheddar mafia?
Cheesing bad
4k views in 1 hour bro is recording an increasing number of views as time goes on
woah 25 seconds
epic vid thanks
10/10
didn't this happen in America as well?
I love your stuff stoic if you read upon this and are looking for someone to take some workload off your hands I would be happy to help grow your channel
This is briellient
Minute gang
Woah!
cheese ski suit
Hello there
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hear me out
gouda is a dutch cheese not swiss cheese
GOVERNMENT CHEESE
Interedtongoing.
*Interesting.
WHERES THE IDENTITY REVEAL? YOU SAID THAT NEXT VIDEO YOU WERE GOING TO RELEASE IT ONCE YOU GOT YOUR PLAY BUTTON!
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4:12 had to like and subscribe because of this hard bar
I'm straight jorkin my peanits rn
04:02 you will not get away with this stick man
Switzerland evil
Stop edging the "bye" 😩
Sam O'nella much?
Gotta fill the content vacuum until he's back.
If you pin me I will feed your car mayonnaise to gain 50horse power
Will you ever make a video with no jokes?
I mean a serious topic in a serious setting
Probably not, most people arent subbed for that plus the jokes make making the video more fun
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fell off WHAT
0 views in -2 minutes bro fell off
Falling off, fell off too 👻
7k views in 2 hours bro fell off
im early asf
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7 views in 1 minute you have fallen off
Early
13 views in one min yea it’s wraps
1 view in 26 seconds? Fell off
76 views in 2 minutes bro fell off
I'm the first view. Blud fell off.
500 views, never upload again bozo 😭😭😭😭
Too many cheesy jokes. bro fell off
1 minute 1 view bro fell off.
sublim 4:02 they are too obvious the plebes are catching on.
Im so hard right now
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