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I have a better idea. I call it guillotine justice. Everyone finds the wealthiest 100 people in their county and introduces them to the guillotine of justice. The homes, land and wealth of the recently deceased wealthy bastards become communal property. Many of the rich bastards own hundreds of houses and thousands of acres of land. We don't need to worry about grocery bills if we have community farms. The rent would go down dramatically with all the free houses available and rich people will be selling or giving away their excess wealth to keep from being picked in the next round of guillotine justice.
We have to worry about farming though.
The prices of agriculture commodities are so low that things will be more expensive after a revolution. Think illigal immigrants picking fruits, they will receive fair wages, won't they?
Yes, they will. You know what else will happen with community farms?
You don't need to long-haul your produce thousands of miles.
You reduce fossil fuel usage associated with transportation and refrigeration.
You significantly cut packaging waste (plastic wraps, cartons, trays).
You eliminate or drastically reduce food spoilage during transit.
You lower dependency on chemical preservatives needed for extended shelf life.
You avoid industrial-scale pesticide and herbicide use that damages ecosystems.
You decrease water waste from large-scale irrigation systems.
You eliminate excessive food processing required for preservation and transport.
You prevent large-scale soil degradation and erosion due to monoculture practices.
You reduce greenhouse gas emissions from heavy machinery and vehicles.
You minimize biodiversity loss caused by vast monocrop fields.
You eliminate food waste from standardized aesthetic requirements (rejecting imperfect produce).
You avoid the environmental harm and fossil fuel use from massive refrigerated storage facilities.
You reduce deforestation and habitat destruction associated with industrial farming expansion.
You significantly lower the risks of large-scale disease outbreaks and contamination.
You reduce reliance on genetically modified crops engineered solely for transport durability.
You prevent nutrient loss in produce caused by prolonged storage and transport times.
You reduce economic vulnerabilities associated with centralization and supply-chain disruptions.
You mitigate community health risks by providing fresher, nutrient-rich produce.
You reduce noise, air, and water pollution associated with industrial farming machinery and processes.
Community farms are precisely about correcting this injustice. There's so much watse in "profit", and profit keeps growing.
Why is your default mode of thinking of these farms that they should operate under capitalism and exploitation? Why guillotine the capitalists and take their golf courses and estates to make community farms if we're just going to continue capitalism?
The opposite. I assume that the mode of operation will change and thus things will become much more expensive.