fear the feeder

FEAR THE FEEDER

The Oil Age has been great insofar as Cheap Eats. Actually, you can back that up to the Coal Age. The first mechanization of the farms allowed more former Northern farmers to go to their slaughter so that the agrarian South could be subjugated by the Industrial Elites who needed cheap commodities. To be fair to the fat capitalist pigs, they had loans on their factories and so the even fatter banker pigs had to be generously compensated. Without near free immigrant labor and near free commodities, they couldn't compete with English factories employing the landless peasants and free colonial commodities.

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Well, they could. It is called tariffs. But let us not get into all that. I only bring it up to remind you that a manufactured pandemic shut down isn't the first bait and switch screwing over the masses so that a few could profit ( the Dot Come Bubble took away the greedy working poor's pensions to pay for all that broadband Internet the elite needed to robotize more jobs ). But at least we got far cheaper food out of it. Granted, the food isn't as good as it used to be. Seventy years ago, the workers got real beef hamburgers ( no pink snot added ) and French fries and now they get corn derivatives in food shape.

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The problem with Industrial Agriculture, besides the obvious petro feedstocks, centralization, finance intensive, soil destruction and import vulnerabilities is that simply, we now have “feeders”. Like milk cows in the barn, we are dependent on them to agree to feed us. There is also ( as others have brilliantly covered ) the issue of our becoming meat cows rather than milking ones, but focus on one screw job at a time. THEY control the food ( by and large. You want to try to get enough land and amendments to grow your own grain? ).

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Growing your own food isn't impossible. It is desirable. And yet, the elite were never so silly as to cede control of the food to you. They controlled the labor market, long before Latino immigrants. Either slave labor undercut the wages of freemen, or European immigration did so. Then, long before Skynet, the robots took over. No job went too long before being replaced by a machine. Those uneducated peasant dudes throwing sabots into the early machines were a lot smarter than your Republican voting ass ( Lincoln=Republican. Hello? Anyone? ) supporting the exportation of your jobs.

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Computer chips replacing your jobs were just the latest in a long line of Job Controls, to keep your wages down and hence you controlled. What does that have to do with all that nearly free land we used to be able to get ( and still can, although a lot of it is then dependent on another control system, automobiles )? You have to join the system to buy the tools needed to farm, and to get that money you were competing with robot farmers. And they always sell for less. I've read many a take that organic manual labor land yields more than machine and petroleum farmed land. Care to guess WHY we keep the inefficient system?

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It is control. Feed Control. Only the banker run system can buy the thousands acres farms, staffing it with a million bucks in machinery. The “independent” farmer is competing with limitless pockets of corporations. The family farmer can feed himself, but not scale up to feed others. Low food prices are not a gift, they are a control mechanism. Your urban low wage worker can only break out by keeping the city job and living on a farm, but that is only viable without debt.

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Was rural electrification a gift to the rural poor? Well, right now, it just jacked up home values and increases the price of land. As does access to paved roads. You actually think we occupy the middle east and frack oil to deliver low gasoline prices and low food prices to you? All those low prices are to get you into the sales room to buy into their Way Of Life. Then they scalp you on the accessory prices. I don't care if gas is 99cents a gallon. You are putting it into a $30k vehicle ( and used cars were never cheap again after Cash For Clunkers ). Not to mention insurance and taxes.

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If you are growing your own food, you are paying off the farm land for thirty years, or need a motor vehicle, or need a job, or even all three. I'm not saying growing your own food isn't possible or undesirable. I'm saying they STILL control you even if you do. They have tweaked the system all through the centuries, 400 years of wage slavery, always changing with the times. JUST to hook up to THEIR Internet, the one you paid for but they control ( you think you control it? Try selling Nazi reproduction uniforms and books on White Supremacy ), to be “independent off grid”, you are looking at a nice chunk of change.

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You may scoff at $50 right now, but what happens when, at 30% unemployment, you lose many of your customers, PLUS they raise the price as THEY lose customers? And by the way, I'm not suggesting it is a good idea to sell Nazi paraphernalia or questionable literature. I'm just saying you will probably lose your web hosting and your payment processor. If you simply MUST sell them, I have a new fangled invention for you, called the post office. But the Internet is no longer about freedom of thought.

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Should civilized people spout hate and discontent? Probably not, but some folks don't think you should be shoving your tongue down your girlfriends throat, in public. As a courtesy, don't be a hater or engage in Public Display's Of Affection. But it certainly shouldn't be against the law, public or private. If you act as a public bulletin board, you shouldn't be allowed to engage as an editor. Anyway, just another control mechanism. First, no Nazi sales. Next, no “non-essential” sales like seeds. See how easy that works? If you ain't throwing sabots, you are ceding control. Continued tomorrow, with seeds and meat processing plants and, perhaps, planned famine.

( .Y. )

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