Cuz the government is trying to see how many farmers they can put out of business. My mom’s got a farm in N. Dakota and she said the price for a bushel of wheat isn’t much more than it was 50 years ago. Checked the price of cereal lately? I’d like to know who’s getting rich, because it’s not the farmer. If she’s lucky she gets enough to pay property tax and hopefully a little profit, but not much.
Who is getting rich on your mom’s farm?
The shareholders of the bank to whom she pays interest on the loans she needs to take out every year to buy the seed and fertilizer.
The shareholders of the agro companies that sell the fertilizer.
The shareholders of the companies that sell the final product, and to a lesser extent the shareholders of the companies that prepare the product.
And since all of that stuff can be done by Chinese at a tenth of the price, the shareholders make a lot more money by doing as much as possible over there. And that is why America, whose heartland is full of wheat, is buying wheat gluten in China to put in dog food.
That’s whose making the money.
If you labor - if you are selling the time and physical movements to do anything at all - then you are merely a commodity - labor - and a cost center, and profits are earned by squeezing you as far as you can be squeezed, until of course you are replaced with a Chinese slave.
It’s just business, after all, and if you want to stop Chinese imports from sweeping away the industrial and agricultural base, well then CLEARLY you’re a left wing socialist protectionist wacko yahoo, of course.