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Authored by: artp on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 01:35 PM EST |
Best quote:
"The rulers never go hungry."
Bill Gates knows nothing about hunger or food production or
food distribution. He knows only about robber-baron tactics
in making money - lots of money. But where does that money
come from? It comes from the new, naive entrants into the
market, the very farmers that he is leading into slaughter
like the Pied Piper. Their losses become Gates' gains.
Food production is very much a bottom-up process. Gates is
trying to make it a top-down process. It is doomed to fail.
Until such time as farmers regain control of their
distribution channels, they will continue to suffer from the
inability to set their own prices, and they will be sucked
dry by their suppliers and customers, unless of course,
those suppliers and customers decide that they want a new
set of farmers. We, as consumers, benefit from lower food
prices, even though it is lower quality and less nutritious
food. So we do not complain about the situation.
Farming is a rare form of economic activity that does not
set its own prices. Farmers take what they can get.
Commodities markets are presented as benefits to the farmer,
yet there is a cost for using commodities markets, and that
is that the house always wins.
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