Grew up and are friends with farmers. Can confirm that most of them are at least upper, upper middle class.

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    11 days ago

    “Farmers” is very broad…

    Most farmland is owned by incredibly wealthy “farmers” who never step off pavement. They’re just land hoarders and “investors”.

    However, most farmers (by number of individuals) are poor as fuck and usually have massive amounts of debt. When they go under or the kids move to a city, they sell to a “farmer”.

    It’s a consolidation of a vital resource and we should all be concerned about the logical result when most of our food is grown by a handful of massive corporations.