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May not have choice in the coming years.
These guys are certainly the landlords of our time
remind me of the post after brexit
Good thing mossad infiltrated USA, otherwise it would be too overpowered.
I’m surprised that they haven’t considered using prison labour yet.
It is also ironic that people in the US criticize alleged slavery in other countries but ignore their agricultural economy
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Awww. That sucks. Your prolonged suffering as your entire lifes work slowly collapses around you, crops dying and cattle being sold in order to try and prop up what little you have left as you scream at everything around you....
Oh it's going to be so fucking entertaining.
real "food comes from the supermarket" vibes here...
No. Real "I'm not an American and am done giving a single fuck" vibes here.
It's almost like there are other places on the planet that are not the United States!
Being an American who is stuck here and didn't choose any of this, wishing additional suffering upon us doesn't feel great, but I understand where you're coming from.
Wishing additional suffering upon us doesn't feel great
Mind pointing out where I did that?
Edit: Your downvotes don't change reality. I still never wished additional suffering on you. But leave it to an American to instantly scream "YOU'RE WISHING MORE HARM ON ME" for merely pointing out what is going to happen to farmers, and is happening to farmers, from their own actions. For enjoying their own suffering, you know, like the entire premise of this community?
The victim complex of the entire United States is fucking insane. Hilarious but insane.
You talked about how entertaining it will be to watch our agricultural industry collapse. Different but feels pretty similar.
Plus your gross hate complex for the entire country. It's weird. Go outside.
Well, it will be entertaining, there's no doubt of that.
Don't want to sink with it? Leave the fucking sinking ship. The writing was on the wall for a full decade already.
Plus your gross hate complex for the entire country.
Once again, Americans just inventing shit to be upset about. I said that you've got a victim complex. How better to illustrate that than by a ridiculous overgeneralization focused on hate of the entire country.
Man... Like I said. The victim complex of your country is insane. Hilarious but insane. I'll just laugh from the outside then, like everyone else. Because apparently if someone from the outside does laugh with you, y'all get real butthurt real fast. Have fun and, more importantly, good luck.
You talked about how entertaining it will be to watch our agricultural industry collapse. Different but feels pretty similar
"Well, no, you didn't actually say what we said you did but we don't like you anyway so fuck off"
Lemmy's really gone to shit lately with you cunts
You can thank our fellow countrymen for that. America deserves international contempt because collectively were an international bully. I've gone overseas and have had a person tell me straight up I was the only American she has enjoyed talking to.
People overseas fucking hate us. Maybe if we bomb the middle east just one more time we can turn things around.
Good thing mossad infiltrated USA, otherwise it would be too overpowered.
Wow. So much ignorant hate here, as always in the enlightened misinformation age.
Most farms aren't corporations. In America for example more than 80% of farmers are smalltime. They don't dictate their profits or the wages they can afford to pay, or influence the prices of their crops or all the crap they have to buy to do farming. A typical American farmer makes $40-50k a year, and every year they risk going into the red or bankruptcy because of fluctuating prices. I really don't know why anybody in their right mind would keep farming. Family tradition or whatever - apparently it's "in their blood".
As always, a lot of people here have jumped right onto the binary world tailgate, using their vast 3-second attention spans to make a value judgement about who wears the black and white hats in the situation and who's evil, then they thumb-type a few decisive words of irrefutable justice wisdom - in this case about evil farmers treating people like slaves.
It's great that Lemmy is non-corporate and part of the fediverse, but after 7 or 8 months here I'm more and more developing the opinion that it's just another kneejerk ignorance shithole on the social media superhighwqy. Scroll on, brave justice warriors, scroll on! And enjoy your lunch.
False. Median farm family incomes are $97,984 in 2023 while the median family income for the country was $80k. "In 2023, the median U.S. farm household had $1,439,138 in wealth" while the median US family net wealth was $192,000. Farmers on average are far better off than the average American. Note that corporate farm incomes are NOT included in these figures.
Sources: https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/farm-economy/farm-household-well-being/income-and-wealth-in-context https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/scf23.pdf (page 11)
For one thing, we're clearly getting our stats from different sources. For another, "household" commonly means one or two people in an urban setting and 5 or more in a farm family. So I would actually hope their incomes are above median. In any case, I srsly doubt that the people here bothered to look up anything before lighting torches and grabbing pitchforks, which was my point.
Well this is good
You can't expect a good end for the net negative incentives all the collectivist immigrant policies created during this time. Here is the backlash.
Ironic for people that keep saying to have empathy for others, and yet everything they do keeps increasing human suffering.
Great idea guys
Yeah let's allow everyone to enter the country. Where will they work, how will they provide for themselves? What do you say? Not our problem now!
Ah but y'all knew the incentive was already there. People desperate for work and people in need of cheap labor go hand in hand
An industry can't be based on cheap exploited labor just like that
Now the guys who you hate have to undo what you did
Now they need to remove the incentive on why people come to the US in the first place and the ones related to companies not having actual consequences to hiring illegal inmigrants
Shit will get expensive? Sure, but it will be worth it right?
People will need to work more? Of course, every poor citizen of the us usually has to work their ass of. But now much more
The cheap food and goods festival over? Well, about time
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