I can never decide what makes me laugh more: farmers constantly crying about being the poorest of the downtrodden or the people who actually believe it.

Maybe super poor rural farmers still exist in the US? But the typical Midwestern white ones are not it.

Lots of couples have to work two jobs! Most of them don't inherit a farm on top of that!

People who inherit a property, & who can afford to keep it even though it loses money, ARE NOT POOR.

They're less wealthy than they wish they were, sure, but that's not "poor." Full stop.

If you don't understand that, you're just straight financially illiterate. Maybe worry about that instead of yelling at people on the internet.

Chronically unemployed ag nerds, the real power behind the throne!

@sarahtaber

Sorry, but people who are truly poor.... can't afford small farms that always lose money.

@sarahtaber

Some of them have a high enough regard for themselves to think that once you hear their opinions you will naturally get on board. The rest usually figure they can just throw enough money at you to endorse whatever they want. Both types are usually gobsmacked when their preferred approach does not work

me: Nah we shouldn't be "saving" millionaires w 6-figure incomes. Or the farmers who are even bigger

them:

if these folks were familiar with the concept of "moral hazard" they wouldn't be asking how to save farms in the first place

The only folks who are going to call me to learn more about "saving farmers" are those whose brains are completely made of pudding.

Which... yeah, explains how those phone calls go.

Did they not listen to a fucking word I said?

This happens at least once a month!