Or, and hear me out here: We could pay people a competitive wage for their labor.
I understand the need for agricultural subsidies. The government inserts itself into the normal supply/demand process to protect the general public against a famine.
What I don’t understand is why those subsidies don’t seem to be flowing past the greedy hands of corporate farmers and into the pockets of farm laborers.
Actually I don’t think it’s that terrible for an idea, as long as things like food and accommodations are provided, and you can’t get out of it by paying (e.g. pay someone to do it for you).
I’d like to see billionaires doing hard labor alongside ordinary people.
If we’re doing it, we gotta add in a rotation of frontline retail/restaurant work.
How about we just add it to curriculum for school. During general highschool educational, you must take at least one Public Service class per year. You can choose from farming, retail, plumbing, electrician, road crew, et cetera. Each kid has to do a certain number of hour per school year, and it’s required even if private school kids. Disability would obviously be an exception, but otherwise you need to be doing at least X number of hours per school year to graduate. Could help people understand how these things work, and hopefully build some empathy in the little sociopaths.
Community service, unpaid labor was part of the Bright Futures scholarships here (they changed it to paid or unpaid work) and was part of the IB curriculum two of mine did too. This is likely true in most states. A lot of high school kids are already doing hours and hours of unpaid community service.
But there is only one real farm inside what I’d define as close enough, an organic community farm that already uses lots of volunteers and unpaid interns and still ends up too expensive for what we got, when we tried buying a share one year. They are not raking in cash at all, either. It just is an expensive endeavor.
Who’s the “our” in “our farms” referring to? 👀
You know…good people. (Pay no attention to the fact that the definition of good people changes wildly every day based on the moods and whims of Dear Leader.)
…right , so only the family farms? Not any farm owned by a corporation, right?
I was thinking more like “farms collectively owned by the populace”…
A very good point.
100% guarantee that those who are proposing this will have some sort of exemptions for themselves and their oligarch friends.
Age exemption was right there in the second sentence (18-30).
Guarantee these bastards are all older than that.
Like being over 30? Or more than that?
This is definitely proposed by someone who runs a farm and wants free labor.
Id cost them so fucking much in repairs. I don’t need the produce to eat, the local varmints will suffice.
Yeah. I’ve read some handbooks and have some ideas. They would not like this idea for long when they start losing thousands a day in repairs.
Oh I would just fuck with the irrigation. If we are talking what I’ve read in books, well all I’ve got to say is “Gooooooood morning Vietnam!” cause that’s about the experience everyone would get.
DEAL, however as these farms are worked by the public they should become owned by the public. And the harvest be distributed at-cost to the public.
While we’re at it, nationalize
Monsantofuckin Bayre I guess. Either that or stop letting them fucking copyright seeds.
