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When other businesses can't hack it, we let them go bankrupt and do something more productive. Why do farmers get treated any differently?
by sagarm 1y ago
When other businesses can't hack it, we let them go bankrupt and do something more productive. Why do farmers get treated any differently?
- mjh2539 1y agoBecause it's in the national interest to not let them go bankrupt (because without food you die).
- pfdietz 1y agoThis is scaremongering. Oh noez, we'll all die unless this group gets a bailout from Uncle Sugar.
- _DeadFred_ 1y agoThat sounds like the anti-vax argument that's so used to having the thing they forget the realities.
- pfdietz 1y agoThe difference being that viruses exist, and the scenario in question with food is ridiculous nonsense.
- Jensson 1y ago> The difference being that viruses exist, and the scenario in question with food is ridiculous nonsense. Its not, famines are a real thing and many people die from them. They only way money can prevent famines is by making farmers grow more food last year. So its just as important to pay farmers with government money to keep growing food as it is to pay hospitals to keep treating people.
- ndsipa_pomu 1y agoCountries don't want to be too reliant on food imports if/when they go to war with their neighbours
- 9rx 1y agoDo we? What we saw in 2020 and 2008 suggests otherwise.