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Catch-22 Redux, Again

Milo Mindbender is the mess officer in Catch-22. He makes a profit by buying eggs for seven cents and selling them for five cents. How?
Seven-cent Maltese eggs cost the sellers in Malta four and one-quarter cents each to procure. Milo is actually buying the eggs from himself in Malta, which means that as a seller there he is making two and three-quarter cents each egg. After he resells the seven-cent eggs to the mess halls for five cents each, he is still making a three-quarter cent profit per egg.
However, it turns out that Milo’s Maltese eggs are actually one-cent Sicilian eggs which he has secretly shipped to Malta to drive up their value, yielding him another three and one-quarter cents profit per egg.
In short: in all these dealings, where Milo is the producer, consumer, and middleman (twice), he can afford a two cent per-egg loss, because overall the syndicate is making six cents revenue per egg. And everyone has a share.

When Jospeh Heller wrote Catch-22 fifty years ago it was a satire. I maintain that it has morphed into the greatest management text ever written. The antics of legislators in California and Massachusetts prove that I’m right.

Those zany liberals are at it again. California is about to implement a law that will outlaw pork products in the state. Pork producers located outside of California who comply with the law in their locality cannot sell their product in California, unless they meet California law. My question is why would a producer incur the added expense?

I see two possibilities. Some producers will stop serving the California market. The second possibility is the opening of new commercial opportunities, with two variations. One is opening BACON superstores just over the state line in Arizona, Nevada and Oregon. The second is a whole new occupation, bacon smuggler.

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/california-pig-law-requiring-more-163634857.html

Is that the smell of burning whiskey? Nope, pork fat.

Massachusetts legislators not to be out done said:

Massachusetts has banned the sale of eggs, unless producers comply with Massachusetts requirements for chicken welfare. Massachusetts has already experienced cross Stateline junkets to avoid paying taxes. Massholes regularly cross into New Hampshire to buy booze and big-ticket consumer items in order to avoid paying Massachusetts sales and excise taxes.

https://www.wgbh.org/news/local-news/2021/12/16/egg-xactly-what-we-feared-massachusetts-could-see-egg-shortage-in-the-new-year

I support both California and Massachusetts in their endeavors. Let the bastards starve!