• chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Protesters are by definition a self-selected group. They’re not representative even of the groups they claim to represent. To meet actual farmers you have to go out and find them in their daily lives, such as at farmer’s markets.

    You can also find many of them on YouTube where they make videos about farming and farm life.

            • Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.comBanned
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              It’s not about my village, it’s about the particular interests of farmers. Farmers are landowners who profit from selling their prices on their market and employing as cheap labor as possible. They’re, by definition, petit-bourgeois, and therefore have the interests of the petit-bourgeois class in their favour. For example, if minimum wage goes up, profits of farmers go down because they’re employers, not workers.