Depleted soil leads to reduced yields, forcing farmers to rely on fertilizers that raise food production costs, consumer prices.

nah it’s the tarrifs bro

  • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    Have I read this something like this in Capital Volume 3

    Something something, @SteamedHamberder@hexbear.net, go take it away

    Toward the beginning of chapter 40, I think Marx is getting to the scenario that caused the dust bowl. Successive investments of capital on a soil of declining productivity eventually will reach a point where the sale price of the crop won’t cover the rent on the crop land