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"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
by 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.