[Donna]

Are you suggesting we let billons of people starve in order to reduce the scale of agricultural industry?

Why would billions of people starve?

But that would undermine the viability of farming in America, forcing many farmers of the land.

Why?

Given American farms produce a large proportion of the global surplus of agricultural output available for trade, the result would be even less food to go around, much higher prices for that which remains, and lots of starving people unable to afford food.

None of this is true.

[Pants-of-dog]

https://www.businessinsider.com/spain-u ... ope-2020-4

Spain is moving to implement a permanent basic income as a measure to help workers and families battered by the coronavirus pandemic.

Nadia Calviño, the country's minister for economic affairs, told the Spanish broadcaster La Sexta on Sunday evening that the government was planning to introduce the cash handouts as part of a barrage of policies meant to help people get back on their feet.

She said enacting basic income was "mostly aimed at families, but differentiating between their circumstances."

Calviño didn't offer a specific date as to when basic income could be rolled out in the country. But she said the government hoped it would become "a permanent instrument."

"We're going to do it as soon as possible," she said. "So it can be useful, not just for this extraordinary situation, and that it remains forever."

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[Godstud]

@Pants-of-dog Interestingly enough....

Canada's cancelled basic income trial produces positive results
https://newatlas.com/good-thinking/cana ... t-results/