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[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't understand what they expected to happen. Do people like this honestly think that the tariffs just mean China is going to pay twice as much or three times as much for the same amount, instead of just buying cheaper soybeans elsewhere?

I know neoliberal economics despises the labour theory of value, but I didn't think it also despised very basic ideas like supply and demand as well.

[–] Wisp@hexbear.net 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do people like this honestly think that the tariffs just mean China is going to pay twice as much or three times as much for the same amount, instead of just buying cheaper soybeans elsewhere?

Yes literally. The average American has no idea what words mean

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I know Americans consider themselves the centre of the universe, but it really does feel like a lot of people in America just think that people in other countries just stand around doing nothing until AMERICA interacts with them.

[–] SmithrunHills@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago

Protagonist-brained egotists. This is why we need to ban Americans from consuming any and all media, especially Marvel.

[–] trabpukcip@hexbear.net 60 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] welcome_back@hexbear.net 41 points 1 day ago

Oh no! The consequences of xirs actions!

[–] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago

Russian bot farm :smuglord:

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago
[–] Commie_Chameleon@hexbear.net 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh no! The consequences of bean actions!

[–] take_five_moments@hexbear.net 42 points 1 day ago

maybe grow idk food to eat instead of idk export crops idk hope this helps

[–] Yuritopiaposadism@hexbear.net 38 points 1 day ago

Oh no! The consequences of our actions!

[–] xiaohongshu@hexbear.net 32 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

This is just Trump screwing over the MAGA-supporting farmers and allowing for their consolidation by the big Ag corporations.

The multinational agricultural capital aren’t losing anything. Brazil is also barely gaining anything, for apart from its farming sector, almost the entirety of its supply chain has been dominated by foreign multinational conglomerates:

From Transparency in Global Agribusiness: Transforming Brazil’s Soybean Supply Chain Based on Companies’ Accountability

In Brazil, 91.8% of the soybean cultivated is transgenic and the German multinational Bayer controls 90% of Brazil’s transgenic market share. Although Brazil has companies that dominate soy genetics, transgenics are controlled by multinationals that receive royalties from Brazilian companies licensed to use their technology in seed production. Domestic seed producers such as Tropical Melhoramento and Genética (TMG) who have created their own germplasm improvement programmes and pay royalties for the use of transgenics, hold 25% of the market share. Studies show that multinationals that own the characteristics transferred to local germplasm make about 65% of the profit from the final price of soybeans, while the other 35% of the profit is shared between the germplasm developers and seed multipliers [45]. Thus, in the segment of the chain related to the production of seeds, domestic capital would be equivalent to only 8.7% for the agricultural year of 2019/2020 (35% of 25% market share), as described in Table 2.

The machinery sector is a worldwide oligopoly as a result of mergers and acquisitions headed by the following major international groups: John Deere, CNH (holder of the brands Case and New Holland), and AGCO (holder of the brands Massey Ferguson and Valtra). In Brazil, the three companies together control 99.6% of tractor sales and 100% of combine harvester sales [39]. The national capital share for the agricultural year of 2019/2020 was estimated at 0.2% when including the Brazilian company Agrale, see Table 2, which produces tractors rarely used for soybean due to their relatively small size.

The results reveal that the market share held by Brazilian groups as a whole dropped between 2015 and 2020. In this time span, there were changes in the share held by domestic companies in the segments of seeds (from 16.5 to 8.7%), fertilisers (from 33.5 to 19.2%), pesticides (from 4.3 to 5.8%), machinery (from 1.9 to 0.2%), and in the trading sector (from 30.7 to 16.1%). Proportionally, the market share held by Brazilian groups as a whole dropped from 40% in 2015 to 34.6% in 2019/2020. The share of domestic groups in the capital and technology intensive sectors (excluding the farming sector) dropped from 12.5% in 2015 to 7.1% in 2020.

In other words, the petty bourgeois farmers fell for Trump’s rhetoric, when it should have been obvious that he would listen to the lobbyists from big Ag corpos than the peasants he despises.

[–] jack@hexbear.net 1 points 18 hours ago

the peasants

Also these farmers are not like peasants; if they are, they're like kulaks. American "farmers" are wealthy bourgeois landowners who do little to no farm labor themselves.

Take their land and give it to the migrant workers for collective farms.

[–] vegeta1@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago

Always thought it was the AG corps gaining i this

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 21 points 1 day ago

Said it before and I’ll say it again, do chuds even like other chuds?

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 37 points 1 day ago

Oh no! The consequences of your actions!

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 32 points 1 day ago

Oh no! The consequences of their actions!

[–] BadTakesHaver@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] upmysleeves@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

tofu is already so cheap imagine what could be possible

[–] BadTakesHaver@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

but what if it could get even cheaper... cheaper than cheap

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

Like that time the price of oil futures went negative... tofu-cool as far as the eye can see

[–] roux@hexbear.net 33 points 1 day ago

These tariffs are gonna affect China any day now.

[–] Xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml 33 points 1 day ago

Oh no! The consequences of my actions!

[–] miz@hexbear.net 24 points 1 day ago
[–] lena@hexbear.net 24 points 1 day ago

Oh no! The consequences of their actions!

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You could always….oh I don’t know….sell them here?

[–] ClimateStalin@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Tofu going for 10¢ a pound until Americans learn to eat it

[–] mickey@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

Aldi got organic tofu at $1.40 you better believe I'm beancurdpilled tofu-cool

[–] stink@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think this is just proof how inept our leadership is. The former neoliberal government was smart enough to give enough small handouts to maintain control. They bought all the milk that was produced, no questions asked, to keep dairy farms in operation. They turned that milk to cheese and practically handed it out for free. Even Reagan knew that you had to do some handouts to keep the people at bay!

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago

Even Reagan knew that you had to do some handouts to keep the people at bay!

Reagan vs Trump

Reagan: "Here's some cheese. Happy?"

Trump: "If you complain about me - I don't even need a trial. I can put you in the worst jail."

[–] booty@hexbear.net 20 points 1 day ago

Oh no! The consequences of y'alls actions!

[–] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

Gigachad autarky China vs no soy exporter USA

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