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I understand what you’re saying but as another commenter pointed out, many ranchers are in incredible debt. The same is for farmers. You get trapped in a cycle
by latentcall 2y ago
I understand what you’re saying but as another commenter pointed out, many ranchers are in incredible debt. The same is for farmers. You get trapped in a cycle you can’t break from without a miracle.
- jghn 2y agoI think you're making GPs point. We see this exact argument being used against more urban types? "If they didn't want to be saddled with crippling student loans, they shouldn't have gone to college to get a degree leading to an exciting career of basket weaving". Great, but they did and now they're hosed. Just like in this case, perhaps those ranchers shouldn't have become ranchers and thus caused themselves to go into incredible debt. But they did and now they're hosed. One can choose whether or not that we the people should help them out when in this situation, but we should apply that with more quality.
- latentcall 2y agoTo be clear I don’t want to “blame” ranchers for their situation. Many ranchers took over family farms etc. I didn’t mean to make it sound like that.