To: CVJ who wrote (127874 ) 2/18/2001 11:52:49 PM From: ecommerceman Read Replies (2) | Respond to Cjac--Sure, I suppose that a hired hand has an economic interest in the farm that he's working on, and I suppose that a Soviet farm worker had an interest in the collective farm HE worked on, but if you don't understand the difference between working as a hired hand and getting paid minimal wages as opposed to working the land you OWN (with the accompanying concern for the welfare of the land, as well), then I don't suppose we have much to say to each other.... Since when did being a hired hand mean one doesn't have an economic interest in a farm, or for that matter any other enterprise, like a coal mine or a car factory or a bakery or..., well you get the idea. Would you favor increasing prices of food or the gov't subsidies that help to keep prices down? The reason there are fewer and fewer small family farms and more and more corporate farms is the little matter of efficiency. Would you rather buy your milk from a supermarket which gets it from gigantic dairies with 1000's of cows, or from a small farmer with 10 cows, or milk you own cow? Things change, maybe not for all the best reasons all the time, but change is the only constant. To maintain small family farms, what price in $ and population control would you consent to? Anything has consequences; like the Chinese say, be careful of what you wish for,you may get it.
