• Flying SquidM
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    -11 month ago

    Why would farmers in impoverished countries want to retain their way of life?

    • @jorp
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      31 month ago

      This is a bad faith argument or complete misunderstanding of the point and in either case the conversation can’t continue productively.

      The point is that a democratic economy where workers own the value of their production would NECESSARILY improve wealth for those workers. Nobody is employed as a charitable act, you’re employed if and only if you produce more value than it takes to hire you.

      • Flying SquidM
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        01 month ago

        And my point is that farming is hard work even if it’s only 20 hours a week and why would enough people choose to do hard work when they can do something less physically taxing for the same amount of pay?

        • @jorp
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          41 month ago

          I fail to see how that same thing doesn’t apply today? Why do farmers work more than 20 hours instead with the same lack of benefit?

          • Flying SquidM
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            11 month ago

            Because people need jobs to survive and in a lot of places those are the jobs available for people with no education. What a strange question.

        • @jorp
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          31 month ago

          I’ve lost your point here but frankly I don’t care to find it. You’re like the final boss of capitalist realism in this whole thread. You can’t seem to imagine any other way.

          A cooperative economy is better than a competitive economy is my assertion and I’ll leave it at that.

          • Flying SquidM
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            11 month ago

            Or… I think there is a huge gulf in between what you want and the capitalist society of today and it doesn’t have to be either/or.

            So many people seem to think we live in a black and white world…