• unfreeradical@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If farmers produce food by working lands they own, then they are not being exploited by land owners.

    However, as you observe, under our currrent systems, the value they realize from their labor is determined by food prices, as resolved by markets through which food is commodified.

    Businesses that exploit workers also participate in commodity food markets.

    Thus, as long as food is produced by profiting from worker exploitation, and is exchanged through commodity markets, all food production and distribution is bound to the profit motive, and therefore subject to distortion away from satisfaction of human need for survival and flourishing.

    I believe practices such as the one you describe, in principle may serve to mitigate some such distortions, and to advance the interests of the working class.

    Unfortunately, EU states, as other states around the world, have now fallen under neoliberalism, which simply exacerbates the wealth transfer from workers to large owners that is already inevitable as a structural consequence of relations under capitalist production and distribution.

    Now, you have not answered my question.

    Is profit not antagonist to the values you espouse?