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Is is too uncharitable of me to think of Tillable as a VC-funded vehicle to make sharecropping even worse than it already was?
by sk5t 6y ago
Is is too uncharitable of me to think of Tillable as a VC-funded vehicle to make sharecropping even worse than it already was?
- haram_masala 6y agoAgreed, it seems like yet another iteration of a company that starts off by disrupting a market to make it more liquid, but whose endgame is becoming the dominant or sole rentier in that space.
- EdwardDiego 6y agoExactly, they sound like an unnecessary middle man that disrupts established relationships with promises of higher rents, which will end up killing the smaller farmers in favour of the large corporate farmers.
- randomdata 6y agoOn the other hand, as a small farmer, I am small because it is very difficult to find land that isn't already tied up in established relationships, often to those large corporate farmers. If something like this can give me an in with a landowner that I currently don't have, it helps my small farming business.
- say_it_as_it_is 6y agoSomeone probably saw what WeWork was doing and decided to try the business model out with farming