• PowerCrazy
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    4 months ago

    This happens when you subsidize food production in a market economy. If the market weren’t subsidized, then the food supply would simply shrink until demand outstripped supply and maximum per-unit profit margin could occur.

    Obviously this is only talking about food production on a macro level, not any individual farmer in any specific region.

    https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/3201/economics/profit-maximisation/