Why are America’s farmers killing themselves?

[zectech]

should be the government‘s job to protect farmers from a predatory financial sector

Washington is the predatory financial sector.

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[大汉奸柳传志]

Washington is the predatory financial sector.

oh yea I fogot it's America

 

[jamahir]

Unfortunately just like the vacations and painting loans aren't going to solve their problems.

I already showed that quote where a farmer wanted the price of his product to be 5 times the going rate. That's great for him but not great for the rest of us. Not to sound mean but his line of thinking isn't much different than what OPEC does...and we all know who are the winners/losers in that.

There's all sorts of farm subsidies but then that leads to other countries crying foul over tariffs.

If people want a society of cheap food and nobody going hungry the little farmer is going to get really hurt.

As @SalarHaqq, @Goenitz and two others have indicated macro maintenance of agriculture should be the job of the governance system. In other words nationalization of agricultural facilities.

No one needs to commit suicide because of lack of money. Money is an artificial artifact.

 

[Kamikaze Pilot]

The number is incorrect. Actually just between 1995 and 2017 more than 300,000 Indian farmers committed suicide. Most of these will be because of India's extremely capitalist socio-economic system.

About USA, taking vacations and taking up painting will not solve the problem of farmer suicides.



The remedial steps should be non-interest loans, possibly banks becoming temporary partners during the term of the loan and progressive agriculture such as Vertical Farming, Hydroponics, general Urban Farming and Collective Farming. Especially the last where small farms can combine labor and thus take on the large farms.

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@Goenitz

So instead of 3,50,000 suicides in 20 years, you want millions of Indians to be killed in a single year a la holodomor.