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[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's not really true though, they're wealthy land owners with huge political and economic power who screw over the poor every chance they get to make themselves richer.

Literally destroying produce to maintain high prices, and not just this example of terrorist behavior but it's standard operating procedure for the cartel to limit supply artificially. People are too poor to afford healthy food and they're out there burning it to stop prices slumping.

Then we get their routine use of migrant workers who they treat like shit and vastly underpay. While working politically to stop any improvements to the system of immigration because they benefit from poor peoples suffering, especially being able to threaten to have them deported.

I could go on...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Ironically, a vast majority of the workers making them money have been Ukrainians who they treat like absolute trash already.