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   On 2016-04-15 1:34 PM, BTR1701 wrote:   
   > Rhino  wrote:   
   >> On 2016-04-15 5:38 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:   
   >>> • Hippie: “Right now we’re proving we don’t need corporations. We   
   >>> don’t need money. This can become a commune where everyone just   
   >>> helps each other.” Another Hippie: “Yeah, we’ll have one guy who   
   >>> like, who like, makes bread. A-and one guy who like, l-looks out for   
   >>> other people’s safety.” Stan: “You mean like a baker and a cop?”   
   >>> First Hippie: “No no, can’t you imagine a place where people live   
   >>> together and like, provide services for each other in exchange for   
   >>> their services?” Kyle: “Yeah, it’s called a town.” Still another   
   >>> hippie: “You kids just haven’t been to college yet. But just you   
   >>> wait, this thing is about to get _huge_."   
   >>> -- from "Die Hippie, Die," aired March 16, 2005   
   >>>   
   >>> • "‘If we each grow a large crop of different food, we could all   
   >>> trade with each other and eat for practically free.’ . . . Let’s   
   >>> take the idea seriously. Hey, what if we all became small farmers   
   >>> and traded with each other? As they say on the Internet: you’ll   
   >>> never guess what happened next. Maybe instead of everybody growing   
   >>> the same things, we could all produce what we’re best at and trade   
   >>> with others for what we need. We could come up with a catchy name   
   >>> for this, like ‘division of labor.’ And we would need somewhere to   
   >>> exchange these goods with each other, which we could call a   
   >>> ‘market.’"   
   >>> -- Robert Tracinski, Federalist, April 14, 2016   
   >>>   
   >> Amazing! They're reinventing the barter system and imagining that this   
   >> is something *new*....   
   >   
   > Not to mention, not everyone wants to be a farmer.   
   >   
   The vast majority of people couldn't be farmers even if they wanted to   
   without massive retraining. I don't even have a houseplant; I know   
   NOTHING about growing potatoes or wheat or whatnot. I expect most other   
   city folk are the same.   
      
   But of course the "progressives" live in a fantasy world anyway. They   
   figure all you have to do is imagine something and it is already done.   
   They would have no idea how to do the necessary training or to make it   
   available to those who needed it.   
      
   The people who volunteered to be retrained as farmers would soon   
   disappear anyway once they realized that farming is HARD WORK. You don't   
   just sprinkle a few seeds and come back in a few months to reap a   
   bountiful crop. You have to deal with all kinds of things that simply   
   aren't "fair", like too much rain, too little rain, early frosts/snow,   
   plant diseases, even locusts on occasion. Then there's the cost of   
   buying and maintaining farm equipment - have they priced a combine or   
   tractor lately? - although they probably expect "volunteers" to do all   
   the work.   
      
   --   
   Rhino   
      
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