Post A4Ap0ivtrPe3tp9T7I by alan8325@bitcoinhackers.org
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(DIR) Post #A4AolJKImZ7s8fDSQS by eiaine@bitcoinhackers.org
2021-02-11T19:07:49Z
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Why do we subsidize the farm industry but not stuff like domestic chip manufacturing? Like, is it more important to prop up corn production than to prop up semiconductors? Pls discuss.
(DIR) Post #A4Ap0ivtrPe3tp9T7I by alan8325@bitcoinhackers.org
2021-02-11T19:10:37Z
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@eiaine I guess having sovereign food production is considered more important. Importing more food and risking having that cut off if there's a geopolitical problem might do more damage than having semiconductors cut off. Just throwing out a guess though.
(DIR) Post #A4ApWVjeSpyuEba1AW by eiaine@bitcoinhackers.org
2021-02-11T19:16:21Z
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@alan8325 yeah, i get that that was the case a hundred years ago... but now 70% of american adults are obese. We could probably survive at least a year on our fat stores alone
(DIR) Post #A4ApgoPtrUrf4OFlb6 by alan8325@bitcoinhackers.org
2021-02-11T19:18:12Z
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@eiaine True, but take away the food and people like me who are 6'10 and eat as much as an obese person without being obese are fucked. 😅
(DIR) Post #A4App274p4qBrhMw40 by georgevaccaro@bitcoinhackers.org
2021-02-11T19:19:42Z
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@alan8325 @eiaine Not if there are a ton of obese people. Just need to subsidize fava beans. 😂
(DIR) Post #A4AqliooCfST6poEJE by alan8325@bitcoinhackers.org
2021-02-11T19:30:18Z
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@georgevaccaro @eiaine Nocoiner minds could actually be useful.
(DIR) Post #A4AqoCEHpDkQu9uElM by georgevaccaro@bitcoinhackers.org
2021-02-11T19:30:46Z
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@alan8325 @eiaine I wouldn't want to catch their mind-virus.
(DIR) Post #A4AqtEKRRo3YrbBYfo by alan8325@bitcoinhackers.org
2021-02-11T19:31:40Z
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@georgevaccaro @eiaine Our immune systems should have that handled by now.
(DIR) Post #A4Ax8ez3E6ntbKv9ma by jordan@isesh.com
2021-02-11T20:41:40Z
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@eiaine farm subsidies are for price control, not because they care.
(DIR) Post #A4B1N0fHoRxyiOm3GK by Seth586@bitcoinhackers.org
2021-02-11T21:29:06Z
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@eiaine we subsidize food to keep the Consumer Price index artificially low, allowing us to print more money, enrich the politically connected, and claim that there is no inflation.
(DIR) Post #A4B254WunuZpRZrwVk by alan8325@bitcoinhackers.org
2021-02-11T21:37:03Z
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@Seth586 @eiaine This answer probably has more accuracy than mine.
(DIR) Post #A4B2XkLMw1nVEe8pMW by JosuGZ@fosstodon.org
2021-02-11T21:42:14Z
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@eiaine In Europe something is going on. Lots of millions. But seeing how government money is used, at least in Spain, I wish they don invest a single cent.There is only one thing worse than not having money: having a lot of money going to the wrong hands. The industry becomes poisoned.
(DIR) Post #A4BRWzliaXI42JLMtE by harding@hash.social
2021-02-11T23:42:17Z
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@eiaine @alan8325 "i get that that was the case a hundred years ago" I think you have your answer there: 'Government programs, once started, are nearly impossible to stop.'
(DIR) Post #A4Be9Mhexv3RcXVYWW by tokenhash@bitcoinhackers.org
2021-02-12T04:42:31Z
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@harding @eiaine @alan8325 1. securing food sources in case of war (a tradition inherited from endemic european wars and famines)2. 100 years ago farming had larger share of gdp3. larger voting base and political campaign financing money source4. government programmes are impossible to stop!all true