There is a smol bean poor farmer in my extended family and they have been exploiting eastern european labor since the 90s, drive new teslas and basically own the entire town around them at this point, complaining every single day about the hardship. Saw the bank balance of one of them once as a kid, that was one of the moments of my early radicalization.
It’s an unbelievably privileged lifestyle on the back of unbelievable exploitation, and in North America the barrier to entry is also “did your family steal native land or own slaves?”
Not that I think people should try to become one of these landowner ghouls, but it’s just impossible to do any sort of farming that would be less exploitative.
That part is completely similar to Finland then.
There is a smol bean poor farmer in my extended family and they have been exploiting eastern european labor since the 90s, drive new teslas and basically own the entire town around them at this point, complaining every single day about the hardship. Saw the bank balance of one of them once as a kid, that was one of the moments of my early radicalization.
It’s an unbelievably privileged lifestyle on the back of unbelievable exploitation, and in North America the barrier to entry is also “did your family steal native land or own slaves?”
Not that I think people should try to become one of these landowner ghouls, but it’s just impossible to do any sort of farming that would be less exploitative.