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[–] FiniteBanjo -3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Defeatist is accepting a system that harms the poor. Separating yourself from the system is unrealistic for the vast majority and doesn't fix it.

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That seems to be what you're doing. "Only the wealthy can live healthy" and giving up on discussion to change that.

[–] FiniteBanjo -2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I see solutions to make Industrial Agriculture work to help all people: land redistribution, regulation, subsidization of what is actually needed. I see no way to make gardens at home work for every person, it's a complete nonstarter.

You're the defeatist, here. You're fleeing from the problems.

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 0 points 6 months ago

*proposes way to help*

"Noo! You're fleeing from the problems"

Good. You go ahead and work on you proposals to improve industrial agriculture. I might not think that's a complete solution, but it's not defeatist. Saying, "only the wealthy can eat healthy" and leaving it at that, sounded defeatist.

But I hope you can agree my support of more people doing home gardening - also not a complete solution - is a suggestion of how to improve things, not defeatist. You might disagree with its utility. You certainly disagree with it being a solution for everybody. But need you attack it as defeatist and running from problems?