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I don’t understand this line of thinking. If you sell a commodity and your competitors are far more efficient, you will lose in the end. Change the commodity f
by thephyber 3y ago
I don’t understand this line of thinking.
If you sell a commodity and your competitors are far more efficient, you will lose in the end. Change the commodity from wheat to mining silver and nobody has their heartstrings pulled for you.
Ultimately people aren’t siding with family farms for economics or fairness reasons - they are doing it to support the losing underdog or anti-modernism nostalgia.
- themaninthedark 3y agoI would hope that if we learnt anything from the pandemic, that we learnt that efficiency is not the end all and be all. Efficiency creates fragile systems.
- chucksta 3y agoYou can't eat silver. Farms also shape rural communities, literally and figuratively. >Ultimately people aren’t siding with family farms for economics or fairness reasons What would you call Community supported Agriculture? (https://www.kneehighfarm.com/what-is-csa)the https://www.kneehighfarm.com/what-is-csa)the farm to table movement? Farmers markets?
- dmbche 3y ago"you can't eat silver" Meaning it's a perishable good, it's a different market. It's good to have a lot of small farms to not have monopolies and as a stopgap to massive crop failures/blight or just bad management. Like corn: the existence of extra corn (currently making ethanol) to turn into food in case of emergency/war, so it's subsidized.
- chucksta 3y ago>Change the commodity from wheat to mining silver and nobody has their heartstrings Meaning no one has a personal reason to care about the plight of a silver mine
- thephyber 3y agoPeople care about the commodity, not the mine that harvests it. Similarly I don’t care if it is a 5 acre family farm or a 100k acre corporation that supplies the corn I eat.
- immibis 3y agoWe don't all die if there's a lack of silver.