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comment by briandmyers
briandmyers  ·  3515 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Paul Krugman: The Libertarian Fantasy

I don't know anything about product diversity, sorry.

I don't know what the answer is for the USA, but removing the subsidies was a big positive for the farming industry here. No one ever talks about going back to the old ways. Farmers have powerful collectives, and make good money. Before removal of subsidies, productivity improvements were below 1% per year; it's reported at nearly 4% per year since. That shit adds up fast.