Political Memes

Healthcare: ❎ "No, that's communism!"

Mandatory Labor: ✅ "Yes, that's patriotism!"

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We could call it "The Large Jump Ahead" or something.

Yeah, not doing volunteer farm work to give private people and corporations free work and profit.

If there were some state-owned ones that the food was used to feed public school kids or others on government programs, maybe.

But no way for someone else’s profit.

Will they get to keep the produce? Otherwise, this is just slavery and very much in line with conservative ideology again.

It was tried back in the 60's. It failed.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/07/31/634442195/when-the-u-s-government-tried-to-replace-migrant-farmworkers-with-high-schoolers

Rich people will be exempt, of course.

Repeat after me class.

FUCK

YOU

PAY

ME

As someone who farmed for the first couple of decades of my life - no. We need to utilize drones for farming and ban the use of tires and fossil fuels (which deposit heavy metals) on fields.

Also pretty sure glyphosate/Roundup caused health issues for everyone I know and myself (all farmers/in farm communities). It's a neurotoxin and is in the entire Ogallala acquifer and most ground water around farms and their watershed. I spoke with a lead state toxicologist in the PNW about this. It verifiably has effects on fish and insects in the watershed here (which Monsanto claims is too diluted to have effects).

Every* American Citizen

• Except my kids, obviously.

I mean a national labor corps with incentivized participation isn't the worst idea. Gives people the opportunity to get work experience without necessarily having to understand their career direction in life.

Shouldn't be a draft in any circumstances but absolute crisis situation, like essential infrastructure is on the brink of total collapse and regular pay incentives aren't getting bodies on it fast enough.

Who knows, might get some people into work they didn't realize they'd gel with, plenty of inspector positions are behind work load and I've got s feeling a part of that is just people not knowing the work is out there.

Why should we be subsidizing labor costs for large agribusiness?

I can think of a lot more virtuous forms of national service.

What’s “our farms” do we own the means of production? Do I get food or resources from this farm? Wtf

As long as every farmer has to work in the city for a year.

Probability that this person is over 30?

They'll all have bone spurs and we end up doing it.

Every American has to do one season of farm work but all food is now free. Monkey's paw curls and all that.

Farmers can't just have free labor and still get all the profits.

Wait till they scapegoat sparrows

i think we should force everyone to do at least 2 years of philosophical education and study.

It would unironically be good for the average persons intelligence.

So there was a reduction of family-operators farming between 1950 and 1990; by 74%. Of course, the number of hired workers has risen. On the surface that makes sense. I would imagine that farms hire illegal immigrants so that they can pay them less than the minimum visa-required pay (which is slightly more than minimum wage); probably also do not provide much in the way of benefits or vacation either. That’s my hunch.

But if i were a young man, and i went through college, and was struggling finding a career in my field and facing the student debt i no-doubt accrued during college, i sure as shit wouldn’t want to spend any amount of time doing indentured servitude. If i did, I’d voluntarily join the Peace Corps or something.

This is insane.

The person that wrote that is like 31 years old last week

and

"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

old habits et cetera

I'm 47.

Get back on the farm, slaves. Danny needs his guava juice.

Get bent loser I have a job and house and life, if I go farm for you I'll lose it. Steal a kid like the army does.

Yeah no, I would die. I can't operate a lawnmower without crippling myself for a good couple of days with allergies, insects will go out of their way to sting/bite me instead of anyone else, and I am too pale to be outside for long periods of time without blistering. Stick me in a factory instead.