3 ms·
Shouldn't rural farmers be making a killing in these conditions? (eg. give me USD or your old iPhone/car and I'll deliver you homemade milk and bread for X mont
by aianus 10y ago
Shouldn't rural farmers be making a killing in these conditions? (eg. give me USD or your old iPhone/car and I'll deliver you homemade milk and bread for X months)
- bpodgursky 10y agowell, if you read it.... > I head out early to a farmers’ market near my house. Before dawn each Saturday, the farmers truck in their produce from the surrounding mountains. Everything’s sold at free-market prices. This is, technically speaking, illegal but essentially goes unenforced nowadays.
- GFischer 10y agoThey probably have ways to divert some supplies to the black market, but most is seized by the military or outright stolen. http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/07/13/venezuela-deploys-army-keep-people-limited-food-supply/ http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/07/13/venezu... http://www.wsj.com/articles/crime-wave-lashes-venezuelas-already-battered-farms-1456871545 http://www.wsj.com/articles/crime-wave-lashes-venezuelas-alr...
- clock_tower 10y agoThey certainly should; farmers made out like bandits during the Wiemar hyperinflation. For Venezuela, see the entry for June 25th here: selling farm produce at free-market prices is illegal, but the ban isn't enforced, and the farmers do well for themselves for as long as their ATM connections stay up.