Monday, April 14, 2008
Decommodifying Agriculture... dumbest idea ever.
In my daily stroll around campus today I overheard some students talking about the possibility of decommodifying of certain goods for the good of human welfare. They were saying that agriculture as a necessity should not be left to the free market to distribute, siting Switzerland as an example of a working people's agricultural sector. What a Crock!? Do they know what that would look like...? Do they think about the freedoms and property rights that would be violated? Maybe it has been too long since we have seen pictures of yards full of refrigerators with nowhere to go. The price system represents the most efficient allocation of resources. That is the reason we do not use platinum for medial things like baby toys. The society can agree upon a value based off a competitive price. Decommidifying the agricultural sector is like taking an already beaten mule (from subsidies) and locking it in a cage full of velociraptors. Maybe you don't follow my analogy, god knows I see the world a little differently that others, not everyone sees markets in terms of mules and raptors, however it is no joke to say that the environmental movement could really use a get-with-the-program shift in what we say should happen. Primitivism is not an option. We need markets.
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