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<blockquote data-quote="Aspiring Peasants" data-source="post: 8151488" data-attributes="member: 198"><p>Life doesn't seem fair sometimes especially when you are young and ambitious, been there felt that. However that's how it is. If you look at a lot of farming businesses their success depends on what their grand-fathers did, hence in the example above. I don't have to look far to see 2 farmers, very similar farms, one whose grand-father bought the farm when the landlord was selling and the other who didn't. They both work hard but the first one is comfortably off, just converting a barn for a house etc. The second ended up on an FBT when his grand-mother died and was booted off at the end of it. Their farming lives were more greatly influenced by previous generations than what they have done themselves. I can think of loads of examples like that, the benefits from land ownership are very long term, over several generations.</p><p></p><p>Regarding outside money financing buying land. This is not a new thing, if you go back to Victorian times, the big estates were mostly owned by industrialists who made their money in the industrial revolution and bought land. The modern day equivalents do the same. One of the big problems with this now, is that in an ideal food producing country, there can be more money in not producing food, rather than helping to feed people. As I said in a post sometime ago I think this is an immoral crime.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Aspiring Peasants, post: 8151488, member: 198"] Life doesn't seem fair sometimes especially when you are young and ambitious, been there felt that. However that's how it is. If you look at a lot of farming businesses their success depends on what their grand-fathers did, hence in the example above. I don't have to look far to see 2 farmers, very similar farms, one whose grand-father bought the farm when the landlord was selling and the other who didn't. They both work hard but the first one is comfortably off, just converting a barn for a house etc. The second ended up on an FBT when his grand-mother died and was booted off at the end of it. Their farming lives were more greatly influenced by previous generations than what they have done themselves. I can think of loads of examples like that, the benefits from land ownership are very long term, over several generations. Regarding outside money financing buying land. This is not a new thing, if you go back to Victorian times, the big estates were mostly owned by industrialists who made their money in the industrial revolution and bought land. The modern day equivalents do the same. One of the big problems with this now, is that in an ideal food producing country, there can be more money in not producing food, rather than helping to feed people. As I said in a post sometime ago I think this is an immoral crime. [/QUOTE]
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