frankly, this has been the overall strategy for farmland since the colonial era.
support programs only began and receive additional resources to slow this process when it’s happening too quickly for political machines to accomodate and the rapid dislocation threatens their stability. news of farm bankruptcies and collapse of farm communities only really bubbles up to the national level when there are too many at once, but the process has been consisten for over a century.
when it happens slower, when suicides and diseases of despair aren’t clustering and the transition of ownership is orderly, it’s termed “improved farm efficiency” and celebrated as innovation and progress.
i would totally be in favor of a support system that steadily buys them all out and converts agricultural land into a communal ownership model by paying the investment and labor costs associated with habitat restoration/protection, conservation practices, or whatever priorities are identified by the community affected etc.
right now it like, mostly helps petite bourgeois limp along until they give up and cash out to massive landowners or like, more successful, cash rich bourgeois who want to reconfigure themselves into some american settler-estate lordlings. like some quiverful VC/fintech douche who can plunk down 7 million to buy some huge farm for his tradwife to populate with overseers. those people cannot be allowed to seize control of ag land & watersheds, especially as we somersault into climate destabilization.
That’s the great thing about America. The system at one point was very intentionally put in place to let the ruling class fail upwards. Even if it’s not done on purpose there are a bunch of assholes who figure out how to capitalize on it. If it bleeds its news? Sure. But if it bleeds its also money to be made.
Is it beyond Trump to do an economic shock to farmers deliberately to force them to sell to bigger landowners who are his pals?
frankly, this has been the overall strategy for farmland since the colonial era.
support programs only began and receive additional resources to slow this process when it’s happening too quickly for political machines to accomodate and the rapid dislocation threatens their stability. news of farm bankruptcies and collapse of farm communities only really bubbles up to the national level when there are too many at once, but the process has been consisten for over a century.
when it happens slower, when suicides and diseases of despair aren’t clustering and the transition of ownership is orderly, it’s termed “improved farm efficiency” and celebrated as innovation and progress.
I support transitioning ownership to improve efficiency
i would totally be in favor of a support system that steadily buys them all out and converts agricultural land into a communal ownership model by paying the investment and labor costs associated with habitat restoration/protection, conservation practices, or whatever priorities are identified by the community affected etc.
right now it like, mostly helps petite bourgeois limp along until they give up and cash out to massive landowners or like, more successful, cash rich bourgeois who want to reconfigure themselves into some american settler-estate lordlings. like some quiverful VC/fintech douche who can plunk down 7 million to buy some huge farm for his tradwife to populate with overseers. those people cannot be allowed to seize control of ag land & watersheds, especially as we somersault into climate destabilization.
It’s like a slow feeder bowl for porky.
Nobody despises petty brshwá as much as big brshwá do
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Even if him doing it on purpose was off the table, it’s certainly not beyond those pals to manipulate him into doing so.
That’s the great thing about America. The system at one point was very intentionally put in place to let the ruling class fail upwards. Even if it’s not done on purpose there are a bunch of assholes who figure out how to capitalize on it. If it bleeds its news? Sure. But if it bleeds its also money to be made.