In Canada, dairy, poultry, eggs and grain are subsidized

and highly regulated as a monopoly

Of course, we hate monopolies, though.

When the state has a monopoly, though, we call it a social program and it's just great.

@Beemann define subsidized. Subsidized by the consumers dollar? All of these industries pay exhorbitant fees to the government in order to maintain market protection.

The meat and dairy industries greatly influence US governmental policy, from my understanding. Also, pharmaceutical companies.

http://theconversation.com/subsidies-for-healthy-foods-are-a-price-worth-paying-to-tackle-obesity-74726

What a joke. It shouldn't cost anyone more money to eat less crap.

They could just stop subsidizing the crap.

Supply management is an indirect subsidization scheme that heavily regulates the aforementioned products to control pricing and reduce foreign competition artificially @Joe_Limon

Indeed. I still think that subsidization is a misleading word for it. These industries subsidize the government with their regulatory payments. Indirect taxation. On par with the government profiting off of spectrum sales.

It's still ultimately an anticompetitive practice, which is the larger issue

https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11702
See, don't think of this as "those nutty indoctrination centers" think of what the social justice crowd is doing: appropriating resources and funding it's advancement. They're also discussing how to advance their objectives and interests. Do those of use on the Free speech side do this? How do we push freedom of speech?

but it is like we need someone to rally people like SJWs do and to not make it about hate is really hard because look what they are doing ... @pratel

Yes, but organization is important. Ground game matters. Let's not pretend they haven't been successful. And the libertarian excuse of 'get woke go broke' hasn't yielded results in the 30 years this diversity stuff has been around. And losing more ground is losing in total.

There really needs to be a strategy discussion. Small things people can do to stem the tide and fight back. Hitting the problems at the from the top and from the bottom. Not just yielding turf and disengaging slowly one-by-one. There's strength in numbers and purpose in strategy, and this needs to be formulated and rallied.

like international movement for free speech?

@Undead Mockingbird how dare you... 😄

naturaal monopolies are ok, but only few non-natural monopolies make sense, very few

There was a very important thing that Thomas Sowell had mentioned:

Not all markets that are occupied by a single supplier are monopolies.,

The important distinction is whether their presence keeps others out of the market.

It's also not clear what percentage of a market must be cornered, or even what a market is.

If people can wear either sneakers or boots, are boots and sneakers the same market?

Or are there certain boots that cannot easily be substituted? More generally, if one product can be substituted with another, it's not always obvious who constitutes competition for you.

I deeply appreciate Sowell because he is very good at pointing out unintended consequences of public and economic policy.

Sowell is an American treasure. Greatest economist still alive probably, the man is too dangerous for media to still talk about him

doesn't get better than seeing those videos of young Sowell in his prime. Especially ones with Milton smiling at what he had created

I love how he fucked over that Feminist bitch back in 1980

They spoutet the same "wagegap" shit even then.

And Thomas debunked it! Violently and beautifully

milton?

did he study under him?

i know they were both at chicago

but i thought he had a different mentor

eh, not important

@Stefan Payne Yes, but it's also depressing how long this nonsense has been debunked now. We've been refuting this for 40 years or so.

Yes and our best black dude has given an awesome explanation.

...and Jordan seems to have found that....

and is parroting his statements

thing is: Jordan is more known than Thomas I think.