My city deals with that by limiting the number of hens (to such a small amount I don't think it's worth trying to do meat birds) and completely disallowing roosters.
I'm OK with these restrictions, I don't want to deal with a whole chicken farm on 1/8 acre next door and fuuuuuuck roosters.
Interestingly, we are allowed to have goats but you must have two or three, because apparently goats are so social they need thier own kind or they get depressed
That is a pipe dream. What's to keep me from coming over to your yard and taking your potatoes? I am a statist, we must have some form of control to keep assholes like me from taking your shit.
The most straightforward way to keep egg prices low is to have chickens. Since not everyone in D.C. has the space for chickens let's rip out that patio in the Rose Garden and put like a hundred of the fuckers in there.
Whether or not markets in some form exist is another matter, and one that would need to be experimented with, but basic essentials to life should be free to anyone. Markets could exist for non-essentials.
I like your optimism and your points but that end paragraph is where you lose me. Say I grow potatoes. Why should I give you my potatoes? I won't, you must buy them from me. If a state takes my potatoes and gives them to everyone and only compensates me what the state wants to I have been robbed.
Sure, "we" could but then the corporation would be violent. They would get governments to be violent for them. See: The Banana Wars.
Besides, market economies are the best way to lift the most people out of the dirt. Should it be all Amazon and Tesla and GE? I don't think so. I'm one of those shitlibs who thinks there's a balanced way to do this without a command economy, without feudalism and without some dystopian corpo-government marriage like we have now.
Like the USA's Progressive movement at the turn of last century. Shit was NOT good and they did get some things fixed.
It's tough. Stick to AP, Reuters if you can afford it. The entire news environment is pretty crazy right now though. I think once the US gets through Trump the rest of the world might calm down some and we can all relax a little bit.
Tomorrow is going to be brutal all across North America. I'm lucky enough to have A/C but if you don't you might want to make plans to shelter somewhere
I can't even understand the math on the right, so I'm going with Pythagoras here