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I think human nature incentivizes top-down corporate business structures and disincentivizes co-op businesss structures.
by jessant 7y ago
I think human nature incentivizes top-down corporate business structures and disincentivizes co-op businesss structures.
- apt-get 7y agoWhich is why 75% of France's farmers belong to an agricultural cooperative?
- cpach 7y agoAre those profitable though? Farming is heavily subsidized by the EU.
- Apocryphon 7y agoAnd American agriculture is likewise heavily subsidized by the federal government.
- ahoy 7y agoUS agriculture is also heavily subsidized
- jelliclesfarm 7y agoOnly commodity crops and those listed on Wall Street/stock exchange. Not the food and vegetables and fruits we consume. Hogs and corn and sugar beets and canola and soy are subsidized.
- dredmorbius 7y agoFarming is heavily subsidised throughout the industrialised world.
- chad_oliver 7y agoFarming in New Zealand is not subsidized, and I believe the same is true of Australia. It's possible to compete on the open market and succeed.
- jelliclesfarm 7y agoNZ used to have subsidies but they got rid of it. Good for them. Fonterra is their big co-op. But with Chinese investment/ownership, most of it is going towards milk powder for export. They posted a loss for the first time last year. Canada has subsidies but different from American. They use a system called Supply Management. They make smaller family farms work better and will survive unlike American dairy. We have more CAFOs and factory farms that are not ecologically and environmentally sustainable in the long run. It’s a mess.
- seanalltogether 7y agoI can't speak for France specifically but if it's anything like the UK and Ireland then farming families are dis-incentivized to sell land because its costs nothing to hold, and always increases in value. As a farmer you might not even own the land you work on but rent it for the season, and large corporations don't work well with that kind of uncertainty.
- chottocharaii 7y agoPerhaps, but the body of law point means we’ll never find out if you’re right or not.
- NeoBasilisk 7y agoI would be very careful in trying to attribute something as complex as corporate structures to human nature. We have seen massive changes in all parts of society throughout the last 10k years. I don't think the human genome has changed so rapidly as to cycle through slavery, feudalism, mercantilism, capitalism, etc.
- andrepd 7y agoIt's always such a convenient and supremely lazy explanation. It's human nature for blacks to be servile. It's human nature for peasants to be ruled by the lord of the manor. And so on.
- hinkley 7y ago> Nothing stopping people from doing that. So... human nature. Human nature is stopping people from doing that.