What’s Wrong with Bananas

Re:What’s Wrong with Bananas by pixl97 on Friday February 17, 2023 @10:41AM (#34835896)

It's just an advanced form of 'hand to mouth' existence, maybe we should call it 'capital to wallet' The fact a crash will come tomorrow doesn't stop most actors from doing what's going to profit them the most today.

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Re:What’s Wrong with Bananas by taeric on Friday February 17, 2023 @10:47AM (#34835974)

I think it is a little more nuanced, in practice. For a lot of amazing progress and such, the short term doubling down on something seems to make a ton of sense. As such, for the individual farmer and all, risky idea. For the town and the society, they can often ride the reward with minimal exposure to the risk.

My personal pipe dream is that we found a way to not load so much downside of risks on individuals. Which seems to be what we do.

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Re:What’s Wrong with Bananas by blowski on Friday February 17, 2023 @11:39AM (#34836885)

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