alt Hacker NewsI mean the US gives enormous subsidies to farmers for food production, and Walmart receives somewhere around $27 billion a year in SNAP from customers. So in that sense, both of these are essentially public to some degree
I mean the US gives enormous subsidies to farmers for food production, and Walmart receives somewhere around $27 billion a year in SNAP from customers. So in that sense, both of these are essentially public to some degree
The subsidies are not 'enormous' vs the total value of all food consumption or production.
There is a huge difference also between subsidizing demand with private supply and providing supply. Exactly the debate that is relevant in healthcare as well. A system can do both, or neither or a combination of the two.