Comments by "" (@danilolabbate) on "How Europe Is Ruining Agriculture [And How to Fix It]" video.
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In the beginning of the 20th century, the politics in my country, Brazil, was dominated by coffee producers. After the 1929 crash those producers were losing a lot of money, so they demanded the government to do something, and the answer was simple: if you can't sell your coffee, government will buy it for you.
The result, as expected, was a complete disaster. Sales plummeted while production increased, the government was buying (and leaving to rot) more and more coffee, and in a few years everything crashed down and the republic fell, ending up replaced by a dictatorship.
Easy money often has bad consequences.
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