This reductionist take ignores the plight of white South African farmers who are currently living the worst humanitarian disaster of the 21st century thus far. The Boers are not that rich when taking into account how most of their belongings are stolen or destroyed by black colonisers, but the South African regime's tight censorship prevents any estimation of the true scale of these crimes. Nevertheless, the prevalence of slogans such as "kill the Boer" in South African political discourse should alarm even the most skeptical of us, for the more we wait, the more innocent white South Africans are slaughtered.

• Owns land.
• Refuses to innovate.
• Refuses to cooperate.
• Grows old and disgruntled.

Place ends up an empty coffin, then big Capital effectively collectivize it.

Socialists get blamed.

I once knew a farmer who insisted he was dirt-poor while his family owned 20 acres of land.

Fuck farmers

American farmers are taking Ls cause they don't have a Jeremy Clarkson to do their PR for them.

Lmao I knew what this was gonna be before clicking. He's kind of a weirdo left libertarian but respect to black farmers getting their bag and having okay politics.

Yep, don’t let them fool you they all own 50+ acres of land and a couple potato cellars and lease it out, and then run small a small farm on their home property. They hire Mexican and Central American immigrants under the table while also calling for ICE to deport non-citizens. It’s not hypocritical, keeping it illegal and under the table allows them to underpay them, skirt regulations and hold leverage over them to get them deported if there is any dispute over wage theft or unionization or anything like that.

They won’t admit this outright. They will instead act like they are giving charity by providing jobs to these poor oppressed folks, and they just want them to come through legally and follow the rules. A fake narrative that makes them the good guy, as always.

Then they collect subsidies to burn corn or have it converted to ethanol that we dump into all the gas, effectively just burning it since this is net energy negative.

It’s the perfect position for them, everything in the world is catered to them. They are the most spoiled class of people in human history and yet they tell this story of themselves as brave, persecuted, hard-working, etc. They are overwhelmingly uneducated and ignorant as a class as well, holding reactionary crank beliefs and homeschooling and/or religiously indoctrinating their isolated kids who grow up on a farm with no other context than this fake coddled upbringing.

And they typically get exemptions from labor laws and regulations; they regularly pay immigrant workers below the federal minimum wage of $7.25/hr and don't give overtime pay

Most "farmers" at least in America are either old people who have inherited everything or owners who hire immigrants for less then they are worth cause they can get away with it or uber like conscription.

This was a problem known back when I was in college 2011 and was the talking point at Oklahoma State which is heavily propagandized. Their answer was people should work under and make themselves liked by the older gen or to put themselves millions of dollars in debt.

The good news is Oklahoma is having to do a shit ton of subsidies to try and encourage people to do cattle farming and its still falling short. The next generation does not have the ability to be any type of current farmer and certainly not the grand idea that people think of a farmer.

I'm not sure what it is now but shortly before covid I was looking to see what farmland cost in the corn belt and it varied from 12k to 15k per acre depending on if it had low spots (flooding in spring) and road access. A large family owned 5k acre farm is $75 million land value on paper. Somewhere around the late 1800's somebody did a soil fertility analysis around the world and Iowa, illinois and Indiana corn belt scored highest. A close second was the Donbass and Russian steppes near Ukranian Russian border. The study estimated there was enough fixed nitrogen in usa cornbelt to last 70 years or so and it turned out pretty accurate estimate. They didn't start adding fertilizer until the sixties and the estimate was only a little off due to changes is planting methods and hybrid seeds. A lot of Illinois farm land owners don't even farm the land or live in Illinois even tho their families have owned the land since the mid 1800's. They do a thing called cash rent where they charge a local farmer or farm company per acre rent. At the time I looked it was about $300 acre if they take it at start of the season or for a lower initial rent at the start of the season and take a percentage of the yield after crops sold in the fall which means they take some of the crop risk for a potentially higher rent. Iirc I figured out a farm land purchase would yield about a 3% yearly return if take the guaranteed $300 per acre for mid priced land. That doesn't include the considerable amount of usa ag welfare. In Illinois they get fed ag payments, state ag payments, reduced property and income tax, reduced state fees for vehicles and lots of other goodies. 95% of counties are red so they also control the state and fed house of reps which means they have outsized political power.

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• inv.nadeko.net
• yt.artemislena.eu
• piped.video