• sudo@programming.dev
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    16 hours ago

    They currently do need subsidies to be profitable. Farmers destroying their own crops to raise prices is a well documented historical fact and it still happens today particularly when it comes to livestock. This is not my abstract conjecture.

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      14 hours ago

      But in the examples I’m familiar with, they do it because of regulation or collusion, not because of a lack of subsidies.