Today, I was shopping, and I noticed that butter was cheaper than cream.  Theoretically, it should be the other way around because more is done to the butter than is done to the cream.  There are additional steps to creating butter than the cream.  I thought for a bit and here's the conclusion I've drawn - butter is purchased more than cream, which means there is more competition with different brands of butter than cream.  Since there is less competition with cream, there is less competitive pricing.  That means that companies don't price products as fairly as they should.  It's my belief that the price of products should be determined by how much money is needed to break even (including employee wages), plus enough for a modest profit.  Part of the problem with capitalism is that people can be taken advantage of.  Even if there is no monopoly on a particular thing, companies can decide to keep prices at a certain height, which would force people to spend more than they want to.  I think it would be greedy if anything else is done...