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briandmyers  ·  3515 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Don't let your Children grow up to be Farmers

Disruption and chaos was exactly what was predicted here, too. It turned out a fair bit better than expected - but we are a small nation. It would be very difficult for such a thing to gain traction in the USA, and even if by some miracle it did, I would think a slower, phased-in approach would be called for.





kleinbl00  ·  3515 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hadn't read your PDF before. Just did. A couple things jump out:

1) Farm profits (IE, living wages of farm owners) were cut by 66% and stayed depressed for 20 years

2) Agricultural conglomerates don't own most of your farms. This sentence:

    Financiers were quick to realise that there was little point in forcing farmers off their land

Is positively laughable in the United States.