Every so often the head of a do-gooder nonprofit or journalist reaches out, wanting to hear my thoughts on [farm topic]
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@sarahtaber he inherited the farm and he and his wife have jobs to keep it. It's been in our family since the 1800's. I hope you're being sarcastic
@FaithinBones I am absolutely not being sarcastic.
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.
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Every so often the head of a do-gooder nonprofit or journalist reaches out, wanting to hear my thoughts on [farm topic]
And they're always floored & taken aback that I say "mean" things about farmers. Like "They're adults. They chose this. And they should live with the consequences of their actions."
@sarahtaber I come from a large white farm family.
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.
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It's kind of a funny selection bias, I guess.
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.
Yeah like... save farmers by kicking out all the "farmers" and giving the land to the farm workers equitably. Even I can see that. -
@michaelgemar And undeservedly so. Rural life means "indoor plumbing and electric are not guaranteed" still.
Honestly not convinced that's entirely a bad thing... composting toilets are fine as long as they're sanitary, and electric lights are hell on our circadian cycles. But the shit we're teaching our children about idyllic cows and duckies who never ever end up on the dinner plate has to stop. I want kids to see the grim death and struggle and be rightly terrified by it. Instead, the only thing we let kids be scared about is:
1. smart people
2. independent women -
them: Wow. This person who keeps making videos abt how most small family farmers are millionaires w a 6-figure income? We should ask her how to save farmers.
me: Nah we shouldn't be "saving" millionaires w 6-figure incomes. Or the farmers who are even bigger
them:
@sarahtaber we tried to tax local farmers making more than 10mil, here in Ventura County, but people got suckered into voting against it
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