C79 The Squandering Posture Was Wrong

The high price of double-headed abalones is due to their inability to be mass-produced in a short time. If they could be, their cost would plummet to that of ordinary meat.

Consider this: even with the means to mass-produce, one wouldn't be able to produce a large quantity of premium abalones. This is akin to Western farmers who would rather dump milk and crops into the sea than see prices fall