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Before the internet, you might be walking down a street and see some chap speaking incoherently to himself, or another one with signs painted all over him shouting at passers by. Another one sitting at home in a corner drooling over him or herself. Now... they sit in grandma's basement and create a blog and have thousands of followers.
Why would anybody care what this nitwit says? Why are people always looking to be insulted? Why don't the news services that highlighted this tweet highlight a positive tweet about rural life?
Amazing this guy's Tweet made national news! What a loser! He is just a peon like one of us. Did you notice it said in the article he is a Graduate Student but in the video they said he is an instructor? He is basically some guy in college and they let him teach some undergraduate courses. Then Fox news tries to make it sound like he is a full professor or something-the media, trying to divide us.
As a liberal who lives in the city I have to say "what a goofy man to even have an opinion on this. I think he maybe getting some mental illness and it is making him post stupid things. I do not mean that as an insult-just seems that way to me.
You think that someone with such a high education level wouldn't be this ignorant. Where does he think his GMO free, organic, all natural food comes from?
Some people don't like the traffic, all the noise, pollution, crime, some people just want a little breathing room.
If I shared my opinions about U.C. Berkeley I’m pretty sure they would not be politically correct enough for this imbecilic professor. This person embodies everything I detest about ignorant, elitist, and otherwise despicable humans.
Reading the reactions in this thread is a case study in how people are easily manipulated and how important cultivating an audience is to media companies.
It is but I just wonder why the flipped narrative.
The distribution of net farm income varies widely by farm type and farm size. The largest farms in the United States (with gross sales of more than $1 million) represented roughly 4 percent of operations in 2012 but generated about 66 percent of the total market sales of U.S. farm products and accounted for an even larger share of the aggregate total national net farm income in that year.
There are few financially viable family-owned farms.
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For instance, 57 percent of U.S. farm operations in 2012 had gross farm sales below $10,000, and these operations typically reported net losses from their farming business.
Some of these farms are operated as hobbies by urban dwellers who are employed in other occupations and rely on off-farm income. For farms with less than $250,000 in gross sales, nearly all of the roughly $70,000 gross average household income comes from off-farm employment and unearned income.
In the latest estimates from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), roughly 60 percent of off-farm income in farm households comes from wages and salary payments to the operator or other adults in the household. Another 20 percent is derived from transfer payments (e.g., Social Security) or interest and dividends on investments. Most of the remaining portion is from non-farm business income.
Farms are not sustaining rural American's
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Between 60 to 80 percent of hired farm workers are employed on crop farms, most are foreign born, and more than half are unauthorized to work in the United States.
Hired farm workers in the United States tend to work for relatively low wages and for fewer days a year than most of the U.S. workforce, which has led to chronic levels of underemployment, unemployment, and poverty in many farm worker households.
Pretty much everybody in the food industry EXCEPT the non-corporate farms are making money
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The non-farm sectors of the food industry have become the most significant sources of employment. In 2012, they contributed to approximately 90 percent of the economic value added to the food products purchased by U.S. consumers. The primary functions of the non-farm sectors are to transport and transform raw agricultural products into edible foodstuffs. These subsectors are the technology and input suppliers, first line handlers and food manufacturers, wholesale/logistic suppliers, retail food stores, and food service establishments.
But this was all by design; largely outlined in the Kissinger era NSSM 200. Willie Nelson & his Farm Aide never stood a chance.
Quite a bit of time & effort was invested into propaganda to motivate young people INTO the cities, for the purpose of population control. The family farm was seen as a direct threat to population control.
So now why the 'outrage' generated for the now extinct American Farmer? They deserve it but it comes about 50 years too late.
Most of our food comes from huge corporation, or really large family farms. They hire illegals, or use robots.
They dont need small rural towns. The owners can live in big cities, and there workers can be kept in barracks.
Actually most of the stockholders/institutional investors and bankers do live in big cities.
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