>They are just flowers lmao who caresThey are the THIRD-LARGEST agricultural exporters by value in the WORLD doing this nonsense. They manipulate flower prices, much like De Beers did with diamonds, and can sell flowers for whatever price they want. Can you understand how ridiculous it is that a country as small as the Netherlands can export 2/3s of the USA in 'agricultural value'?
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>>217853990I don't care about flower prices tbqhwyf
Who tf is buying fucking flowers
>>217854313Me (for my mom)
This is the reason brazil doesn't build and export lithography machines
>>217854407No that's the CIA
>>217853990i've always considered flowers to be one of the most retarded and illogical purchases you could ever get for someone. sure, they look nice for a few days, but then they begin to wilt and become unsightly, then you have to throw them out. they only smell if youre up close to them, and even then, the smell isn't always pleasant. i would always rather give or receive chocolates over flowers because the enjoyment you get from eating chocolates vastly outperforms the enjoyment you get from smelling a dead plant or looking at it as it decays in a vase
>>217853990flowers are a non factor in their agricultural exports, they're a borderline tourist traplook up their imports, the dutch import a ton of raw agricultural products, process them, package them, and then send them out again, but with a "product of the netherlands" stamp on it, something like half of their "exports" is stuff that they import and then resell then there's the endless greenhouses producing high value produce like vegetables and fruits, and guess what? they're surrounded by high income countries, all in a union with basically no internal customs or friction to trade, who if they wanted to buy those expensive fruits and vegetables from someone else they'd have to bring them from abroad, which is more expensive and less fresh of a productthe dutch tailored their agricultural sector to mesh particularly well with the EU economies, surgically remove the netherlands from europe and move them to north america, or china, and those massive agricultural exports banish overnight
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