Re: silca and Tariffs

On 4/27/2025 4:16 PM, AMuzi wrote:

On 4/27/2025 2:39 PM, Shadow wrote:

On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 14:06:50 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

Goes both ways.
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Brasil is a highly efficient producer of sugar, which is
virtually impossible to import in to USA.  For the past 120
years across every administration.

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    Brazil uses slave labour. Hard to compete with that
price-wise. The sugar cane industry has become an oligopoly. The "big
corps" rent land from farmers, sometimes refuse to pay what they
promised and when they give the land back nothing will grow on it.
Sugar cane depletes the land, rather like soy. In three years it's
sand.
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    There's a reason why the Chinese government  will not allow
planting soy in most of China..... they plan thinking decades in the
future.
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     I heard that Australia's fully-automated sugar-cane farms are
far more efficient than Brazil's labour-heavy methods. Machines don't
have to feed their children or invest in bettering their education.
They're cheaper than slaves....
    []'s

 WTF?  And neither Dilma nor Lula nor anyone else interfered with or even addressed slavery as a domestic political issue??
 

just guessing, but I think "slave labor" is a bit of hyperbole. Perhaps he meant "slave wages"?