• zuckey78@sh.itjust.works
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    23 days ago

    I think it’s worth noting that many farmers THEN were what we would call “self employed” now. Farmers NOW are probably more closely aligned with the Starbucks barista - because they now work for Epstein class. The Man at the bank who owns the loan is no different than the CEO who writes the check. Both the barista and the farmer are being taken advantage of the Epstein class.

    Politicians who have a spine now are putting themselves on record if whether they are standing publicly for the people (people living paycheck to paycheck, or season to season) or the financial class - the bankers; the tech-first, human-second Epstein class elite.

    I wish I had the courage to speak out like they do…

    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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      23 days ago

      Yep. They were family farms in the real sense. As self-made as it gets (while acknowledging here that a lot of land was stolen, offered for cheap or free by the government).

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        23 days ago

        That’s absolutely fair. The conversation of who owns the land, can land actually be owned, and what of the indigenous population is just as valuable.

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      22 days ago

      It really depends, “farmer” can mean like a seasonal farm hand or someone who owns a ton of land and works some of it sometimes. It’s a super ambiguous word.