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So why do farmers in the EU deserve protection or coal in the US? We do subsidise some things. What makes that choice happen?

• karakot 7y ago
  lobbying
  • Quarrelsome 7y ago
    ^^ which is kinda my point and also arguably reasons for shit like Brexit. If we, the intelligentsia make "no subsidies" arguments for taking away well paying jobs for the working classes while allowing other (lobbied) industries to accept subsidies then we're making ourselves complicit in the hypocrisy.
    • kofejnik 7y ago
      you can subsidise the poor cabbies all you want, as long as you don't take Uber away from me also, don't call me 'intelligetsia', it is insulting