system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: How can companies like Dole, grow something like Bananas halfway across the world, process them, ship them, and then sell them for less than a dollar a pound and make a profit?
gpt
There are a couple of reasons.

1) By growing their produce in countries where the cost of living is low they don't spend very much on wages for people who work their plantations. 

2) many times those same countries have far lower standards in construction and safety, so they spend as little as possible in those areas.

3) size. A company like Dole has a massive market share so even if they only make a little off each banana they sell so many of them that it adds up to huge profits.