Looking for some nuanced take on the farmer's protests across Europe. State overreach, crazy climate policies, flooding of imports etc, look to be the trigger but I'd be interested on perhaps an Austrian School perspective. Weren't European farmers the recipients of substantial subsidies from the state over the last few decades?
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They want to create a famine so they can roll out a war-time like ration system... you will not pickup ration cards at the post office like during WWII, they will issue you a digital ration card. Badda Bing badda boom... CBDC
In Netherlands farmland occupies 60% of land mass.
Not profitable for a failing government.
They need it to build cheap housing to accommodate millions of extra tax payers.
To make this happen, they've introduced crazy emission laws which will eventually break farmers and force them to sell their land.
Once enough farmers have failed, I predict they'll roll back the emission laws to make it possible to develop the land into pods.