Socialists are so dumb. If they just raised the price of the tomatoes, then more people would be incentivized to grow tomatoes for sale. Imagine the numbers of farmers that would start growing tomatoes at 5 dollars a tomato, for example.
“Imagine the numbers of farmers that would start growing tomatoes at 5 dollars a tomato, for example.”
Imagine also the number of people willing to pay that $5 compared to the supply.
About 90% of such tomatoes grown would rot in the field because vendors would buy only about 10%.