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Why should urban citizens subsidize a lifestyle choice for others?

Because people that live in cities need to eat.

Because we are a society.

Because not everyone that lives in the country (or a small enough town) chose to live here - people get born there and turn into adults there.

I shouldn't have to mention this, but farmers need infrastructure to keep making your food. Gas and groceries and utilities and grain silos and schools and doctors and a bunch more - oh, and people that operate all of this.

Those people that make all that stuff run need a lot of that stuff too.



This sounds like something the market can deal with. If it costs a lot for farmers to set up, they can charge more for products until they are profitable again.


If the market can deal with it, why isn't it done now? Why do we have to have "fair trade" coffee, for example - shouldn't it all be that way?




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