https://nitter.net/TheEconomist/status/1690713079405768704

  • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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    1 year ago

    Expect it normal individual farmers dumbasses, these are Chinese agribusiness, collective village co-ops and state owned fields

    Again you don't know how agricultural subsidies work, the state doesnt care about an individual and thier small allotment in a village, they care about the farms with thousands of acres that uses seasonal migrant labor from the city to harvest

    Or in the case of the subsidies, state brokered heavy equipment and subsidized feed

    You literally dont have a clue how Chinese agriculture works, those capitalists are already making profits at state expense, some of them are whining they can't speculate on different inefficient crops without losing state subsidy

    Those corporations don't have an automatic right to state subsidy and they don't have a right to play around with the food, you're basically arguing China should return to the conditions that caused famines in the past; poor speculation, hoarding and soil exhaustion by greedy landowners

    Hopefully in the future China can skip the remaining middlemen and hand over the farms to the workers themselves instead of giving those bloodsuckers artifical profits

    • HelixDab2@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      I'll take that as no, you haven't read the article, and no, you don't believe in individual self determination.

      Nice chat.

      • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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        1 year ago

        michael-laugh It's not an article dumbass it's a 33 min podcast episode by one the Economists top China watchers

        lmao YOU didn't even borrow to click the link, thanks for the laugh, next time engage with the subject matter instead of just bullshitting your way thru