• esc27@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I’m confused. Are farmers the ones buying oversized trucks just to drop of the kids and shop at Walmart.

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      10 months ago

      No, farmers are buying them to do work. His point is that they couldn’t afford them if there weren’t huge subsidies for farmers. If those subsidies didn’t exist, farmers would still need pickups, so the manufacturers would almost have to come up with cheaper models, or they’d lose sales to companies that do.

      • bluewing@lemm.ee
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        10 months ago

        I know it’s edgy and popular to blame farmers for a large number of things. But there aren’t enough farmers to buy that many pickup trucks to sustain the sheer number of of them produced.

        Look inward young urbane urbanite.