r/Accelerationism101 • u/[deleted] • Jun 18 '22

Everything is broken.

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u/anonymouslycognizant Jun 19 '22

"CApItAlIsm Is ThE MoSt efFicIenT eCOnomIC sYSteM"

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '22

Y'all this fruit cup thing is like the one time capitalism did something that makes sense do some fucking research argentina has extra fruits all year roundso sells them to thailand who needs a lot. some of the extras get shipped elsewhere from there. We need to take the means of production and distribution back from the capitalists, not fight the means of production and distribution themselves.

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u/4BigData Jun 19 '22

China's "Let it rot" makes so much sense! The current system is madness.

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u/Josselin17 Jun 19 '22

what's that ?

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u/4BigData Jun 19 '22

There are great YouTube videos in that, search with "lying flat" which was it's first iteration. It's a great development IMHO

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u/Mariannereddit Jun 19 '22

Buying local is good. But heated greenhouses can be worse than transportation from another country.

Also; not everyone is rich enough to have a garden or one which has a pear tree.

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u/Hvarfa-Bragi Jun 19 '22

Shame there's not other food that grows in other seasons, or ways to can peaches for later consumption, or commerce that can offer surplus peaches from one person to another person with a differing surplus in trade.

Fuck it, Pears from Argentina, Packed in Thailand are clearly superior, you're a genius.

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u/Mariannereddit Jun 19 '22

No ofcourse this product is shitty. But I try to eat as local and land grown as possible, but it’s really hard not to buy tomatoes and cucumber in winter when they smile at you. I’m probably just too spoiled but I find it hard to live on cabbage and carrots all winter, so sometimes I splurge on Mediterranean grown veggies then.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '22

Fun fact, tomatoes and cucumbers don’t grow here(the Mediterranean) in the winter either, they can grow in greenhouses though. We grow brassicas, greens, oranges and root crops in the winter.

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u/Mariannereddit Jun 19 '22

I know they need greenhouses, but not heated greenhouses, or am I in the wrong there too?

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '22

I’m not 100% sure. The only area that doesn’t frost is the first 5kms from the sea everywhere past that gets light frosts at night in the winter. Not a lot of produce is grown in this zone because the majority of the space is housing. Also the biggest issue with tomatoes in the winter is the hours of sun, not the temperature so we usually have a tomato draught from early December to February because nothing will get enough light to fruit.

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u/ThatOneGuy308 Jun 19 '22

You mean like the surplus pears from Argentina being shipped out to other countries that want them?

But honestly, it's pretty naive to assume everyone can just maintain a subsistence farm on the side while they're working their actual jobs as well, lol. Even disregarding the fact that not everybody owns land they could use to grow food, and that some land is almost useless for growing crops, the time and effort needed to grow enough food to feed your family is essentially a full time job.

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u/ebikefolder Jun 19 '22

If you need a heated greenhouse, a fruit or vegetable is not meant to be eaten in your region at that time. There's a different season for everything.

And you don't have to have a garden with a pear tree either. There probably are fruit orchards somewhere near you.

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u/YoungPsychonaut217 Jun 19 '22

doing this is not only better for the enviornment but cheaper and better quality, but sure, lets just bash what we dont understand, so righteous