Gentle nerd freak of the pacific northwest. All nation states are vermin.

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    9 days ago

    Actual farmers are usually held hostage by the agro-giants who buy their product. In most markets there’s a Monoposony - like a monopoly but a single buyer who can set prices and terms, rather than a single seller.

    Industry behavior is driven by these companies who have all the power. They leave farmers with all of the risk and take all the profit for themselves.














  • a unique quality to the feeling of it’s drive

    I have to admit I’m skeptical, and not just because it sounds written by a marketing team.

    Things like the subjective feeling of something are strongly socially determined. When we’re told something is fancy or high quality we have a different and better experience of that thing.

    As humans it’s rarely possible to separate our experience of a thing from our judgements of the people and identities we associate with it.




  • Securing the resources to spend on communal projects that benefit the state is one of the many reasons that state employs violence against its citizens, yep.

    Roads are a great example because across the world, major road projects were always built to speed up the military getting to and putting down rebellious provinces - bearing arms against their subjects.

    All states are instruments of violence, that’s their sole function. Anything they do that makes our lives easier is just the velvet glove over that iron fist. It’s easy to pretend otherwise when the state hasn’t turned its violence on you yet.