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resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 days ago

California farmers to destroy 420,000 peach trees after Del Monte collapses

www.independent.co.uk

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California farmers to destroy 420,000 peach trees after Del Monte collapses

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resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 days ago
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Officials say cutting 50,000 tons of peaches from production could prevent $30m in losses for farmers

cross-posted from: https://lemmings.world/post/45411521

  • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
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    Ah yes. What a wonderfully efficient system capitalism is. So very good at utilizing resources.

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      It actually is VERY good at utilizing resources.

      Preserving them for the future, not so much.

      • fodor@lemmy.zip
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        Not quite. Factories will stay closed, houses empty.

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      Free markets are a lot more efficient than trying to run the whole economy from the top down. We just need to tax accumulated wealth.

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        There are other systems than unhinged capitalism and top down communism.

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          Like?

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        Capitalism and free markets are not the same thing, nor is either particularly necessary to the other.

        • Dr. Moose@lemmy.world
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          Free markets are absolutely necessary for capitalism.

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            Yes. Buuut what type of capitalism are we talkin’ bout?

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          Or exclusive.

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          The comment I was replying to seemed to assume capitalism had something to do with resource allocation.

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        All these tankies down voting you as if the entire world wasn’t running on this principle and as if something better existed. Free markets with oversight are simply unbeatable - fact.

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          What’s the largest manufacturing country

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            You think China is not capitalist? China that told it’s citizens to: please stop competing so much?

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