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  • I wish the mouthpieces of rich assholes, like these tools from NNU, would support teaching factual history. It’s nice that a Scotsman from the 1770s thinks parents need to pay for school or else they won’t care about educating their kids. I don’t find Smith’s opinions binding, or particularly actionable in 2023.

    When I went through Idaho public schools, our history class never mentioned the fighting and midnight flight of the Idaho state capital from Lewiston to Boise in the 1860s. No mention was made of the Army called out to illegally imprison hundreds of miners in the 1890s to help break the many strikes. No mention was made of the mining union, or the IWW, organizing thousands of Idahoans for fair wages and treatment. No mention was made of former governor Stuenenberg being blown up with a bomb in his mailbox in 1905.

    The monied interests have been corrupting politics, exploiting workers, rewriting history, and lining their pockets in Idaho as long as there have been monied interests. They continue to do so today, as witnessed by these 3rd tier Chicago-school pudknockers from Nampa.

    The monied interests are still here, fucking over the Idaho political and education systems. It’s no wonder that 2/3 of the U of Idaho students leave the state after graduation.






  • Grumble@lemmy.worldtoAntiwork/Work Reform@lemmy.fmhy.mlUnder capitalism
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    Well, those yield gains are from capitalism subsidized with government-sponsored ag research at hundreds of college campuses, and subsidized by intellectual property protections for patents and copyrights, and government price supports, and government crop insurance, and government land-bank programs to pay farmers to not overuse the land, and ag labor subsidized by special exemptions for minimum wage and citizenship verifications, as well as tight border controls and political vilification of the immigrant labor force to keep the wages low.

    But yeah, when society throws enough money into capitalism and soaks up the external costs, it sometimes delivers results.

    In short, modern US agriculture is hardly a good example of either unfettered markets or unfettered capitalism. Big US ag is privatized profits and socialized losses, like a lot of other US industry, albeit with much better PR than (for instance) the banking industry.