justsomeantifas:

I’m particularly struck by the assumption in this argument that farmers have somehow ever been compensated fairly under a capitalist system to begin with. 

If your whole shtick is gonna be that we need capitalism because “what about the farmers!!!!!” then it might be worth your while to actually read up on what farming under a capitalist system looks like.

 

Farmer suicides are a worldwide epidemic, precisely because of how capitalism makes it an unpredictable and often untenable occupation for farmers (suicide tw x, x, x, x, x). Corporations have been outright stealing land for the sake of maximizing their own profits (x, x, x, x) and leaving people who work the land destitute as a result. Our current food production system is overly reliant on industrial agricultural practices at the expense of sustainability (x, x, x, x), because capitalism prioritizes profits first and foremost. And this is without discussing the inevitable impact that climate change has already had and will likely continue to have on agriculture and food productivity moving forward. Acting like “what about the farmers!!!” is some kind of gotcha is incredibly, dangerously ignorant of what’s actually happening to farming as an occupation under capitalism.