IT FUCKIN SUCKS SO MUCH people keep saying "but you see the problem is that the economy is not good and it is more profitable for the big farmers to export as they will be payed in dollar" AS IF I CARE ABOUT THE BIG FARMERS (and also the ammount of farm subsidies brazil has means a single big city pays more taxes than the whole farming sector so i am kinda paying for these dudes to profit real cool stuff)
really good system of resource allocation for sure!
the Agriculture lobby is really powerful here and they always repeat "WE FEED THE COUNTRY" as their main argument to their importance and it is so frustrating like they don't The Rural Landless Worker Movemente, it is called MST - basically actual farmers that grow crops that occupy farming land from Big farmers that have not been used (the brazilian constitution has some stuff about the social value of land that means that both urban and rural land can be occupied and given to the people using it as long as it has been abandoned for like 10 - 5 years depending if it is a rural or a urban space, it gets really complicated if i go further than this into how this works) and other smaller producers are who feed us like it is a lie they destroy the rainforest so they can do more meat and more soy and we don't even get to eat it, like rural land reforms are just such a fucking needed thing in this country and it just can't happen because they are so powerful, like Lula was a big Land reform guy but it just will not happen politically he had approval ratings in the 80% and he couldn't do it
IT FUCKIN SUCKS SO MUCH people keep saying "but you see the problem is that the economy is not good and it is more profitable for the big farmers to export as they will be payed in dollar" AS IF I CARE ABOUT THE BIG FARMERS (and also the ammount of farm subsidies brazil has means a single big city pays more taxes than the whole farming sector so i am kinda paying for these dudes to profit real cool stuff)
really good system of resource allocation for sure!
Let's go get paid in USD while our people starve, truly the best humanity has to offer!
the Agriculture lobby is really powerful here and they always repeat "WE FEED THE COUNTRY" as their main argument to their importance and it is so frustrating like they don't The Rural Landless Worker Movemente, it is called MST - basically actual farmers that grow crops that occupy farming land from Big farmers that have not been used (the brazilian constitution has some stuff about the social value of land that means that both urban and rural land can be occupied and given to the people using it as long as it has been abandoned for like 10 - 5 years depending if it is a rural or a urban space, it gets really complicated if i go further than this into how this works) and other smaller producers are who feed us like it is a lie they destroy the rainforest so they can do more meat and more soy and we don't even get to eat it, like rural land reforms are just such a fucking needed thing in this country and it just can't happen because they are so powerful, like Lula was a big Land reform guy but it just will not happen politically he had approval ratings in the 80% and he couldn't do it