Greed is a fact of human life. Sure it can be overdone but in it's most innocent and balanced form it's the motivation for capitalism (as opposed to envy - the motivation for communism).



I'm more bothered by the greed that lists a price much higher than the going price in the hopes of finding an uninformed sucker to pay it while at the same time cutting deals with educated buyers down to the real going price. If each year you do your best to determine and sell for the going price you don't have to put the screws to either our past or new potential customers. If the going price really did fall $10K in a year then that's just what the market did. Pretending it's still at $14K this year is just trying to pass the loss on to one more generation of breeders. Perhaps last year they where just pretending it was at $17K and those who paid that where the unlucky victims of fake prices that had to come back in line with reality eventually. Hopefully their animals will breed well and they’ll only take an extra year or two to recover.

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