Comment on Utah Farmers Signed Up for Federally Funded Therapy. Then the Money Stopped.
Lembot_0002@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
They need money, not therapy! All that suicide shit comes from them being too poor, not because some city-drama.
Comment on Utah Farmers Signed Up for Federally Funded Therapy. Then the Money Stopped.
Lembot_0002@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
They need money, not therapy! All that suicide shit comes from them being too poor, not because some city-drama.
CarlMarks@lemmygrad.ml 2 weeks ago
The official vocation of farmer, in the US, is not a particularly hard laborer struggling for housing or food or healthcare. They are a property owner and employer dramatically underpaying people who are actually dirt poor, particularly the labor underclass of immigrants. Accordingly they are frequently white supremacists.
But what is happening to them is that large companies are buying them out when “times get tough”, where the big company can weather financial storms more easily than individual “farmers” and can dictate things like prices via monopsony power, including dominating consortia that literally set prices if you want to sell certain crops through normal channels.
This is basically the story of scammy petty bourgeois car dealerships getting bought out by big companies. I am not particularly sympathetic to the small business tyrants that internalize their business failure so extremely. They knowingly hurt hundreds of people if not more during their “careers” and live off others’ labor.