https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/stupidpol/comments/1t4txyk/the_works_of_the_roots_of_the_vines_of_the_trees/

California peach growers are getting paid 9 million dollars to remove 420,000 peach trees. Economists believe that removing 50,000 tons of peaches will save growers $30 million in losses.

Fuck me. On reading this it is 1000x stupider than I every imagined. Tens of thousands of acres of peaches all going to a single factory to make fruit cups and shit.

And the farmers, instead of just, y’know, selling the damn peach as is in a fucking supermarket or whatever, go and beg the government for help.

Why not have all the farmers buy the fucking plant, that way they actually have some control over the sole buyer of literally all their produce.

Why isn’t the innovative campanies stepping in to address the gap left in the free market?

Christ, American businessmen are the biggest goddamn welfare queens.