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Grombobulousyesterday at 11:19 PM1 replyview on HN

You’re absolutely right. For example, we’ve seen the negative impacts from excessive agricultural consolidation.

Many of them already lack profitability without subsidy.

Many agricultural products all pass through the same mega-sized processors and entities. Driscoll’s, Tyson, etc.

We’ve already made things like water and sanitation non-profit/government owned so the idea of doing more of that for food and essentials isn’t that crazy.


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gruezyesterday at 11:31 PM

>You’re absolutely right. For example, we’ve seen the negative impacts from excessive agricultural consolidation.

Like what?

>Many of them already lack profitability without subsidy.

That doesn't mean anything without context. How are the non-PE farms doing?

>We’ve already made things like water and sanitation non-profit/government owned so the idea of doing more of that for food and essentials isn’t that crazy.

sanitation: please see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_Management,_Inc.

water, but not power, or natural gas?

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