India protests: Internet cut to hunger-striking farmers in Delhi

Re:India protests: Internet cut to hunger-striking farmers i... by xrisk on Sunday January 31, 2021 @04:18AM (#25977368)

I never claimed that they always work as expected. That is not an excuse to do away with them.

As for the shtick that they will not abolish mandis, that is already demonstrably untrue [1]. It is trivial to observe that big corp will utterly destroy them and then coerce farmers into bad contracts when they have no alternative.

As for your argument that the "free market" will improve the situation, for the record, it has been done before and has miserably failed. [2]

For posterity, I would recommend that you don't cite sources that are essentially blog posts with zero data or theory. I might as well cite the Communist Manifesto then. There is actual serious work on this matter.

[1]: https://www.newsclick.in/Fallout-Farm-Laws-New-Laws-Paralyse...

[2]: https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/agriculture/bihar-scrapp...

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Re:India protests: Internet cut to hunger-striking farmers i... by sbmthakur on Sunday January 31, 2021 @10:32AM (#25979510)

The scenarios you cited may show that private Mandis are bad at protecting farmers but they do not involve big corps who have the capital to build storage facilities and facilitate farmers with farm related activities. So how did you conclude "big corp" will destroy farmers with this laws?

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