Which means they are paying those plantation workers fair wages now

Right...

Great now they are going to start stealing all the cocoa out of new construction

Headline should be: copper cheaper than you thought

Cocoa being more expensive might be better paid workers and better living standards right?

Ok billion dollar idea: selectively breed yeast until it can make it. I leave the details as an exercise for the reader.

Try Cardamom. That stuff is getting ridiculous, ~$20 for a small standard grocery store spice rack jar. Apparently climate change is affecting the production. I was making some Indian food and ran out, went to the store and was shocked at the sticker price. A quick calculation seems that it’s about $15,500/US ton, ~50¢/oz bulk market cost, whole allspice.

Yes, but also copper tastes terrible.

Time to start drinking copper

$9,000 per metric ton. So... $0.2551 per ounce. :)

Copper is $8,300 per metric ton or $0.2353 per ounce.

And yeah, 35,274 ounces in a metric ton. :)

Ea-nāṣir gonna be getting complaints about the quality of cocoa

Fine, I'll put copper in my coffee since it's cheaper.

Yeah but it makes rubbish wiring.

Coppr can go succ it if wants more of my money

not forget the $8.7 Billion hedge fund pumped in https://www.ft.com/content/563227fe-edfb-40bd-bea9-dc2822ba4f27

So this is why a candy bar is now $2.69?

I used to buy chocolate candy all the time but they've seemed to double in price in 10 years, so I turned to pretzels instead, which are still cheap

Willy Wonka is furiously amending his payment contract with the oompa loompas right about now.

Won't somebody think of the chocolate factory and its shareholders?

I'd be ok if we ditched chocolate as a society.