So, on the Cannibal Club thing:
If anyone owns a small business, knows much about marketing and business, or just understands, even briefly, economics, the fact that they sell a "human roast" (which, what happened to not using the brain?…) at $1250 get's pretty eye-opening pretty quickly.
They're going to be selling these for profit, so they're able to get enough "product" (which, fuck them for making us ever even consider a person's remains as "product" in the first place) to sell it at this price and still make a meaningful enough profit to continue business. However, this also explains what they're getting these bodies at when buying wholesale.
If you do basic research on something like Investopedia, you see suggestions for something like 10-20% profit margins (the figure I saw was with a business that does 700k in gross sales).
If we can agree that being super precise about this isn't all that important, which I find pretty easy to do, then we can suggest they're buying human remains for roughly 1k a person.
1k a person
>1k a person
FUCKING 1K A PERSON, GUYS.
Yes, how much "product" (the more I even say this, the more bothered I get buy it) they use per dish should matter a little bit here, like if one person's remains can equal 15 meals, the importance of the number can't be quite as significant as when you'd likely first consider it, but bear with me here.
Either way, if they're making $200, roughly, on one single purchase, as displayed, how the fucking fuck are they staying in business?
How popular is this business specifically?
What do their customer demographics look like?
How often are people buying?
Do they genuinely have a big enough customer base?
Hopefully I can get the ball rolling with this. I meant for this to be a much shorter post, since my original thoughts were pretty refined, like, "how is that all they're charging? doesn't this raise a lot of questions about how much they pay for them, the demand and availability?"
There's too many questions that just keep popping up with this.
The biggest ones, I'd suggest, are how they have enough customers to stay in business, where they're getting this much human remains and how they actually monetize this business. Do they operate mostly through donations? How do human remains not cost more than this? Pretty much all fucking caskets cost more than this.
What the fuck?! I'm having too many mixed emotions about this (not pleasant ones, mind you).
This whole situation is gut-wrenching. I don't know how in the hell anyone comprehends these circumstances, let alone the fucking logistics of this shit.
Sorry to be so emotional here, anons, but fuck these people.