Question concerning everyday goods

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In the game I was just playing, it reported that certain elements of my population were only getting 67% of their everyday goods. Yet, when I tried increasing production of those sorts of goods, and even tried importing them, nothing happened. The imported goods weren't consumed (coffee and tobacco) and the 67% figure remained. What's the cause of this?

 

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I'll say this once:

Your POPs do NOT consume your stockpiles of goods, they buy EVERYTHING they need DIRECTLY from the world market with their own money reserves.
This means two things:

1. If your POPs lack something you can make sure they have more money (by lowering taxes or putting them to work in a more profitable factory) or that their desired goods are cheaper (by lowering tariffs).

2. There is ZERO point in producing food. There will always be some poor third world country ready to sell their produced food, so unless you can't find anything better for them to do it's pretty much a waste of workers to have anyone produce food in your country, it's far better to convert them to labourers or clerks and put them to work in your factories.

As they will then most likely earn more money to buy food on the world market, your population as a whole will suffer less from starvation the less farmers you have. Silly, eh?

 

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Thanks for the enlightenment.

 

[Spruce]

Originally posted by anti_strunt


As they will then most likely earn more money to buy food on the world market, your population as a whole will suffer less from starvation the less farmers you have. Silly, eh?

yeah,

that's true, I guess the farmers made up for at least for the farmers own food supply.

When you country has virtual no farmers anymore it will go into rebellion when some shortage is starting to come. This seems to me more the case when more and more countries see a shift from farms to industry,

ok perhaps the farms got more effective in the long run, but famines are something to be prepared for,