Subnostr

I love the farmers protesting over-regulation, taxes, idiotic green policies, and government overreach into personal property, but they also seem to want some taxpayer funded handouts, with which I don't agree.

So many things in the world are treated as black and white, for and against, but most things are shades of gray. Very few things/people are 100% bad or 100% good and we need to be open to the truth instead of just picking a side. I try to always see the truth and be true to my principles.

If someone, that I usually disagree with and think usually acts in an evil manner, does something good, I will praise them for the good they did. If someone, that I usually agree with and who I think usually acts in a good and honest manner, does something bad/evil/foolish, I will speak against that action. I wish more people would look at the world this way. Most people pick a side and then defend it to the death even when some of the stuff, their side does, is contrary to their beliefs and their good.

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Ruminant Llama 1y ago

Very healthy approach to life

FiddleHodlHomestead 1y ago

Great points about folks picking a side. I think it's been one of the main sources of complete bewilderment as I watch the last few years and it explains so much of the mess that we see around us.

Regarding farmer protests: I keep debating this question in my head. Subsidies distort the market - no doubt - but we're talking about citizen money that used to go to farming and now will go to windmills and bureaucracy. Within our current system, I'd rather that $ go to farmers, especially in Europe where most farms are much smaller than they are in the US - I think? - and where govt policies seem to have sort of worked in keeping good food available to the public.

But of course keeping the subsidies further entrenches certain powers and moves us further from free markets, small actors, and innovation. I don't know... whenever I get to this point in thinking about something it just re-affirms to me the importance of building a new system.