juskom95 (04-13-2020),shootbrownelk (04-15-2020),StratBastard (04-12-2020),TJC44 (04-13-2020)
If you want to hear a Cattle Rancher go nuts, just mention the meat packers. The meat packers have been consolidating in the extreme, so now they are all owned by 4-5 huge conglomerates. They are squeezing the retailers on the one side to raise retail prices and limit production and the ranchers on the other to destroy the prices at auction. According to my rancher friends here, there is no shortage of beef. The meat packers are holding it back to drive up the prices, even to the point where it is rotting in the packing plants. They are using the opposite side of that to drive down auction prices.
I do not know if it is true or not, but the ranchers here are ready for violent revolt over it.
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Innkeeper (04-13-2020),juskom95 (04-13-2020),MountainGirl (04-12-2020)
No shortage of beef on the hoof.
This bull hits both ends of the food chain.
Maybe after all the barns burn down - things will eventually revert back to small scale producer->consumer.
For the humans that are left.
Innkeeper (04-13-2020),shootbrownelk (04-15-2020)
That's just right. We saw the fist fights over toilet paper... imagine when it becomes food. Then there's the looming issue of people not being able to make their rent or mortgages. I smell violence percolating if this continues much longer. Even with everyone back to work, there will be many who just CANNOT get caught up... and a wave of possible defaults and evictions in the months after. Could. Get. UGLY.
BucketBack (04-13-2020),hawgrider (04-13-2020),Inor (04-12-2020),juskom95 (04-13-2020),MountainGirl (04-12-2020),shootbrownelk (04-15-2020)
And right in the middle of all this, here's yet another prominent individual advocating for economic Armageddon... in the name of "dignity", and misplaced altruism. With absolutely no idea of cause and effect, of how money works or fails, of how humans behave. A "universal Basic Income" would instantly start swelling the ranks of the parasitic, and diminishing those ranks paying for it: the productive. Any money introduced via fiat means rather than created wealth via production only dilutes the money supply... leaving them with higher prices and no more purchasing power than they began with. There IS no magical means by which a large portion of the world can be carried in this manner, except via streamlining opportunities for them to produce as well.
https://www.usnews.com/news/national...c-strikes-deal
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