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DylanMc6@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• PumpkinSkink@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Eah. A lot of “farmers” are land owners who hire other people to work on their farms. The average net worth of an American farming household is like, north of $1.5 million iirc.

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  • cows_are_underrated@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    1.5 million is not that much. Also theres a massive difference between how much you own (without debt) and how much money you make. Even while 1.5 million may sound like a lot it is in fact a quite small farm. They are probably not making that much money (also remember, that a lot of their income gets tunneled directly into paying back debt for investments.

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    • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Large equipment alone steals the fucking show.

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      • cows_are_underrated@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Not just the equipment, but also the costs for land and buildings. In my region a single hectare of land costs around 10-20k€ so for a small farm (which would be at around 50ha) you would pay 500k to 1m € just for the land alone. You havent bought a single piece of equipment, you didnt build a building and depending on what your structure is, you also havent bought a single animal.

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      • Zink@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        John Deere has entered the farm

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      • Apytele@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        And there’s a lot of right to repair fights. If you think a Honda trying to lock you out for not taking it to the dealership for an oil change is bad, just imagine how bad it is for somebody with a combine that costs most of that million.

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    • PumpkinSkink@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’m not saying they’re “rich”. I’m saying they’re not, as OP suggests, proletarian.

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      • cows_are_underrated@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        If they weren’t proletarian they wouldn’t have to work. Farmers are some of the most hard working people in society. 70h a week is a normal workload. They work 365 days a week and still get fucked over.

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