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Food is a bad industry to get into: * You're competing with 101 nations that subsidize their exports for political reasons * You probably also have to subsidi
by LatteLazy 4y ago
Food is a bad industry to get into:
* You're competing with 101 nations that subsidize their exports for political reasons
* You probably also have to subsidize exports, so it's a loss maker over all
* You're open to very erratic prices as freak weather (at home or abroad) drive supply around. Plus fashion and arbitrary changes to tariffs and other factors. Your inputs (fertilizer made from petroleum) fluctuate in price a lot too
* In the medium term nothing you're growing will remain viable as climate change bites
* The work is low skill, dangerous, boring and isolated leading to major issues in the community
* Pollution is high both generally and locally
Stick to financial services where you can employ a lot of people, pay them well, actually make money, keep them in efficient low pollution cities and live a boring prosperous life like the swiss
- bell-cot 4y agoAll true, to various degrees. OTOH, if $Sudden_Unexpected_Events make it very difficult to import enough food to keep your own population decently fed... "Keep the Nation Secure" is a pretty basic & important function of a national government, no?
- pastacacioepepe 4y agoTrying to keep a population fed vs trying to profit in the international food market are two very different things. I bet to keep a minimum level of food always available in case of black swans you don't need to grow food the way the Netherlands do.