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<blockquote data-quote="Goweresque" data-source="post: 7836532" data-attributes="member: 818"><p>I've always said that would happen, if food became a National Security issue for some reason, whatever that might be.</p><p></p><p>Basically we're allowed to wallow around in the mud and do our own thing scratching a living while the times are good, but if the SHTF and food prices are through the roof then we'll be nationalised faster than you can say Arthur Scargill. We are never going to be allowed to make serious money out of farming, on a scale of the sort of return on capital that the banks and other financial institutions make (for example). </p><p></p><p>Currently people spend c. 8-9% of their income on food, if that say doubled to 15-20% (which would only take you back to how things were in the 1960s) then we would face price and production controls for sure. Maybe not pure nationalisation, as even the government knows that turning farms into a version of your local council's public works department would mean half the production at 3 times the cost. But some sort of similar control system as was implemented during the war would be introduced overnight. Farms are never going to be allowed to be gold mines.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Goweresque, post: 7836532, member: 818"] I've always said that would happen, if food became a National Security issue for some reason, whatever that might be. Basically we're allowed to wallow around in the mud and do our own thing scratching a living while the times are good, but if the SHTF and food prices are through the roof then we'll be nationalised faster than you can say Arthur Scargill. We are never going to be allowed to make serious money out of farming, on a scale of the sort of return on capital that the banks and other financial institutions make (for example). Currently people spend c. 8-9% of their income on food, if that say doubled to 15-20% (which would only take you back to how things were in the 1960s) then we would face price and production controls for sure. Maybe not pure nationalisation, as even the government knows that turning farms into a version of your local council's public works department would mean half the production at 3 times the cost. But some sort of similar control system as was implemented during the war would be introduced overnight. Farms are never going to be allowed to be gold mines. [/QUOTE]
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