Comment on How The US Gave Up On Growing Food

Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• chuck@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Nope turns out it’s nepotism. a sizeable chunk of farmers didn’t learn how to be competitive so they grew big monopolies. This along with the don’t let family farms fail policies has created a system where there is no innovation so wages stagnant but the landowners survive and vote against Thier own interests.

  Actually a good video worth watching at double speed if you’re time crunches

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  • paper_moon@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Its been interesting watching people who literally own millions of dollars in land scream about how poor they are, and continuously blame liberal ‘elites’ when they could sell or rent their millions of dollars of land for profit. Like I get it, that value isn’t liquid cash so they might be cash poor and finding it hard to make ends meet, but when you’re sitting on extremely valuable land that you can sell whenever, its crazy to be screaming about being poor when most people in the US own nothing and are renting their apartments or homes, and have no value of anything to sell when they’re cash poor.

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  • Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Thanks for clueing me in, I’ll give it a go over lunch

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