Complete lies.
agcensus.usda.gov
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Henry Murphy
Justin Rodriguez
Farm work is fun af imo
Alexander King
Read Table 3. 64% of their "small family farm" owners are waged laborers. A whopping 84% said that farming was not their principle source of income, with many of the remaining farms being owned by retirees. Note that their cut-off for "small" farms is $350k annual gross. They also include horse farms in the tally. Oh, and a third of them are cattle ranchers.
The more you look at the numbers on the second page, the less impressive the numbers on the first page become. On top of it all, "family owned" can mean a lot of things. Another curious number from page 2 is that the waged laborers composed the youngest demographic of small family farm owner, and they have an average age of 52.8 years. How many of these guys are farmers, and how many are investors?
Jason Howard
It is good to see something actually get done while you work. I suppose that there is no alienation from the product of your labor.
David Collins
So really, only 16% of the supposed small family farm owners are possibly peasants, and of them a third of them are cattlemen with an indeterminate number of the remainder raising horses and who knows what other quadrupeds like goats or sheep. The remaining number of
Eli Thompson
I already agree that machines don't produce value but aside from law of value and competition why don't machines create value? Will the machines be too expense making it impossible for capital to valorise?
Brandon Perez
Please leave Fascist scum.
Andrew White
That's the beauty of it. I grew up near a bunch of peasant style farmers. No corporations, just a farmer, their farmland and their sweat. It was amazing to see the happiness on their face when they finished a task. They truly got to see their labor's result.
Kevin Cooper
44% of those who make less then 150,000 are only employed through the farm. So peasantry in America still exists.
Brandon Thomas
bump