Chinese buyers booked at least 10 cargoes of Argentine soybeans after Buenos Aires scrapped grain export taxes, three traders said on Tuesday, dealing another setback to U.S. farmers already shut out of their top market and hit by low prices.

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[–] 89 points 1 year ago (11 children)

That's what I love about their stupid logic

The US economy was built and maintained because of the large number of middle class business people and small town business owners, farmers and workers .... the little bit of wealth they generated for themselves helped to create a monolith of wealth for the ultra rich ... the money trickled upwards.

Now they are set to destroy and decimate all those American middle class people and their little bit of wealth ... it will be like shutting off the tap that supplied the ultra wealthy with all their wealth. On top of that, the new class and growth of destitute people everywhere will only become a net loss as you try to turn your country into an expensive police or military state that will constantly need financing.

Sure, the rich will be able to buy everything up for cheap ... land, businesses, buildings, real estate, everything for a fraction of what it cost originally ... but any savings they get will be lost on paying for security, police, even military as everyone everywhere start fighting for the little bit of scraps they can get because they're starving.

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Ironically, this is (partially) why government social support services originally started in England. Back in the Victorian period, the rich realised it was cheaper to pay a bit more tax to keep the poor fed, than pay for security to stop them being robbed. It was also cheaper than locking them all up.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Which is why we will never be allowed to starve .... not fed enough, not enough nutrition, constantly hungry ... but never allowed to completely starve.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago

    This is America we're talking about here. MAGA is fucking cruel. They'll take pleasure watching people starve who they've deemed as lessor.

    That already think all immigrants in the country are criminals and cheer when they're deported to death camps.

    Sorry, friend. You're starving.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Not like you will have statistics or free media to know one way or the other. Lmao

    Glad USians sacrificed all those children to gun violence in case they ever needed to use their guns to fight tyranny. /s

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    trump and the gop, wants to replicate RUSSIA, and putins oligarch, where all the control, and planning is on the top.

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