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If Imperfect Foods's business model works out, it sounds like farmers will see an increase in profits. I don't see why that couldn't coincide with a decrease in

If Imperfect Foods's business model works out, it sounds like farmers will see an increase in profits. I don't see why that couldn't coincide with a decrease in subsidies. In an ideal world, we could even redirect that money towards the poor - potentially making up for the impact to food banks.

datavirtue 8y ago
You don't know shit about subsidies. Kindly shut up.
- asauce 8y ago
  Hey, next time you comment please take a look over HN's comment guidelines[0]. The parent comment brings up a good point about subsidies, however it would be great to also learn if there is a flaw in their reasoning (as you so strongly believe). Comment's like yours just discourage conversation. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dang 8y ago
  Yikes, posting like this will get you banned on HN. Please don't do that again. If you know more than someone else, the best thing to do is to post correct information, hopefully with a good amount of detail. Then the rest of us can learn something too. Alternatively, you can just not post anything. But no personal attacks, please.
  - shawn 8y ago
    Speaking of bans, can I be unbanned yet? I'm trying to submit stories like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18128969 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18128969 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18135771 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18135771 How about a joke? What do you call a gathering of musically-inclined Lisp programmers? A consert.
HBlix 8y ago
The subsidies aren’t going anywhere, the lobby is very strong and senators like being re-elected. “Just get rid of the subsidies” sounds great, but it won’t happen. So given that as a baseline reality, and given how much produce is grown by small farmers vs. giant conglomerates, this is really just about more money in the bank and less food in the food bank.
retsibsi 8y ago
> I don't see why that couldn't coincide with a decrease in subsidies. In an ideal world, we could even redirect that money towards the poor - potentially making up for the impact to food banks. This seems true but irrelevant. The claim that things would be better for everyone, were X accompanied by policies Y and Z, is not a real defence of X unless you have good reason to believe that it really will be accompanied by Y and Z.

datavirtue 8y ago

You don't know shit about subsidies. Kindly shut up.

asauce 8y ago
Hey, next time you comment please take a look over HN's comment guidelines[0]. The parent comment brings up a good point about subsidies, however it would be great to also learn if there is a flaw in their reasoning (as you so strongly believe). Comment's like yours just discourage conversation. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
dang 8y ago
Yikes, posting like this will get you banned on HN. Please don't do that again. If you know more than someone else, the best thing to do is to post correct information, hopefully with a good amount of detail. Then the rest of us can learn something too. Alternatively, you can just not post anything. But no personal attacks, please.
- shawn 8y ago
  Speaking of bans, can I be unbanned yet? I'm trying to submit stories like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18128969 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18128969 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18135771 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18135771 How about a joke? What do you call a gathering of musically-inclined Lisp programmers? A consert.

HBlix 8y ago

The subsidies aren’t going anywhere, the lobby is very strong and senators like being re-elected. “Just get rid of the subsidies” sounds great, but it won’t happen. So given that as a baseline reality, and given how much produce is grown by small farmers vs. giant conglomerates, this is really just about more money in the bank and less food in the food bank.

retsibsi 8y ago

> I don't see why that couldn't coincide with a decrease in subsidies. In an ideal world, we could even redirect that money towards the poor - potentially making up for the impact to food banks. This seems true but irrelevant. The claim that things would be better for everyone, were X accompanied by policies Y and Z, is not a real defence of X unless you have good reason to believe that it really will be accompanied by Y and Z.