Middlemen's sorcery!
The other day my father-in-law told me something which I could not decipher logically. Someone got him some cauliflowers from Bogra, and the price was more amazing than the taste.
Apparently, they were priced at Tk.1 apiece at Bogra. Even though the cost of growing them was between Tk. 3-4, traders settled the price at Tk.1 because of an overabundant supply. The price at Bogra was not the astonishing part. What was absolutely astonishing is that the same cauliflowers are priced at Tk. 20 in Dhaka!
How on earth does the price of a product rise from Tk.1 outside Dhaka to Tk. 20 inside Dhaka? I really don't understand how this works.
It seems that studying through an undergraduate programme was a gross waste of my time. I should have been just a trader. Huge profit, more cars, bigger houses what more could I want!
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