It’s not just more people choosing not to have children at all. People who want to have children are having a lot fewer. In my grandparents’ time families would have 10+ and sometimes 20+ children. Now even having 4 kids is considered a lot!

Genetics may be expensive but rooting hormone powder is cheap! Also don’t buy fancy grow lights. Shop lights are way cheaper and work just fine!

Yeah so you have a great perspective on the farmers in your village but that won’t generalize to all farmers everywhere.

One village.

Protesters are by definition a self-selected group. They’re not representative even of the groups they claim to represent. To meet actual farmers you have to go out and find them in their daily lives, such as at farmer’s markets.

You can also find many of them on YouTube where they make videos about farming and farm life.

I have spoken to loads of farmers. What you’re describing is exactly what I’d expect from someone whose only knowledge of farmers comes from leftist online spaces.

That’s a regulatory environment which gives rise to these companies, not a specific feature of capitalism. Government interference, crony capitalism, regulatory capture; whatever you want to call it. You see similar sorts of corruption in other systems: feudalism, mercantilism, communism.

It’s the problem of elites. No one has ever found a solution to it.

Yes I read all that on Wikipedia. What’s lacking is an explanation of how you’re equating the crimes of one company with capitalism as a whole, in order to justify taking away the right of farmers to personally own their farms and equipment and sell their produce at the side of the road.

Which is not described or explained, it’s merely alluded to with a vague mention of everyone’s favourite bogeyman, Nestlé.

Or perhaps those areas have other problems not mentioned here?

When I go down to the farmer’s market, none of the produce there is being sold by Nestlé, yet I live in a capitalist country. How is that possible?

I guess you’d prefer to continue speaking in vague generalities. Carry on!

Farmers’ produce goes for a pittance because of supply and demand clashing with growing seasons. For example, when peaches are in season the market gets flooded with peaches because all the peach farmers are harvesting and shipping peaches at the same time. Thus peaches are dirt cheap during peach season. Farmers would get a lot more for their peaches if they could spread them evenly throughout the year but nature doesn’t work that way.

As for the “layer above” farmers (distribution and retail), that all depends on what country you’re in and how agriculture is managed. So you’ll need to give a specific example if you want to discuss further. Under capitalism (at least in my country), farmers are free to sell their produce directly to consumers at farmer’s markets or even beside the road outside their farm.

Has the author ever spoken to an actual farmer? Almost universally they’ll tell you that if they were solely in it for profit they wouldn’t be farmers. We support farmers with large subsidies and market barriers because they’re so unprofitable otherwise.

This meme is so wrong it’s downright laughable!

I believe it’s a UK name for arugula. They frequently express the same bafflement for cilantro.

Where indica simply refers to the plant’s first collection (by Lamarck) in India and sativa means cultivated in Latin. Loads of plants have some conjugation of this species name:

Allium sativum (garlic)

Coriandrum sativum (coriander / cilantro)

Crocus sativus (saffron crocus)

Cucumis sativus (cucumber)

Eruca sativa (rocket / arugula)

Oh I know all about that. The printer we have at work seems to have a technician coming in to fix it every week!

That bit about Marc Priestly should be familiar to anyone who has studied or worked in any job remotely related to computer science. “Oh you’re a computer scientist? Can you fix my printer?”

3 master’s degrees is a red flag. It tells the employer you don’t really know what you want to do with life.

Try just putting only one of the degrees on your resume when you apply (the one most pertinent to the job). Same goes for past experience: don’t list everything, only list what is relevant.

Employers these days can get hundreds or even thousands of applications to a job posting. They filter these down to a manageable number with AI looking for keywords. Then they look through the remaining pile by hand to try to get down to just a few they can interview.

It’s easy to mess up a resume in a way that kills your chances of getting a job. One of the sure fire ways to do that is to clutter up your resume with irrelevant (to the job) experience or education.

The wheels are coming off. People are starting to notice that the emperor has no clothes.