Europe has seen massive increases in food prices over the last two years and yet farmers are still struggling. What gives?
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They're not struggling. These people are not humble farm hands or subjugated peasants, they are wealthy rural landlords who want to maximize their share of national income. They claim to be an oppressed, salt-of-the-earth class as a matter of political aesthetics, like how Americans making 200k a year and living in mcmansions go on about how rugged and working class they are and how "coastal elites" could never understand the common folk like them.The farmers simply replace a Ford F150 with a million dollar tractor.
This isn't a popular revolt, it's a bunch of landlords throwing a collective tantrum over the idea of giving up a bit of income so future generations could live on a healthy planet. In any civilized country they would be treated as such.
