Do you realize that we have to pay for food because farmers have to be paid too? If food was free, no one would want to be a farmer because they would get nothing out of growing crops.

leftistcrap:

justsomeantifas:

youre bad at math huh? probably from the shit capitalist system that actively encourages math inadequacy.

Farmers need to be paid.

If food were free, farmers would not be paid.

Assumptions made: The only possible source of compensation for farmers is money, the only possible source of money for farmers is through directly charging the consumers of their crops, the only customers farmers have are the direct individual consumers of food made from those crops, and that farmers are currently paid directly from the sale of crops.

So my counterpoints would be that A) money isn’t the only form of compensation nor is it the one desired by most economic actors, rather it is the things that money gets them (food, water, electricity, gas) that fuels the supposed desire for money; B) a farmer can be provided with money or other types of compensation through mechanisms other than the sale of goods for profit; C) the average customer of any given farm tends to be corporations rather than individual consumers; and D) corporations also tend to be the owners of farms and pay the farmers wages, typically low wages at that, which do not vary based on output or profit but rather are fixed to the amount of time spent working.

If you wanted farmers to be compensated fairly, you should be an advocate for worker ownership of the means of production, not capitalism.