Comments by "Me Here" (@mehere8038) on "Nigeria Is The Biggest Cassava Producer In The World. Why Isn’t It Cashing In On The Global Market?" video.

  1.  @Kremithefrog1  They're earning $1 a day & you want them to do the government's job too? How many countries require farmers build their own roads? I know mine certainly doesn't! We even subsidise farmers, because we consider it important for our population to be food secure, so we spend some of the money earnt through taxes from city people in investing in farming, to ensure the city people don't die from famine (or covid supply chain breakdowns, or Ukraine & other wars & droughts impacting available food from overseas). That's what governments are there for! My country grows enough food to provide the calories for 4 times our population btw & export 3/4 of it, mostly to our own region, so as to ensure food security across the region & therefore prevent unrest that could impact on us politically via refugees & wars on our doorstep. WELL worth the investment in the roads etc so as to make all of that possible imo! Hungry people are unhappy people!
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  2.  @Kremithefrog1  It's the government's job because that's how society works! A community chooses to pay taxes in return for a group of people managing that money to build & care for society. The money is spent on things like roads, water, food & medicine & oil security, defence of the country, defence of the people via health care, police, fire services, education etc etc cause that's what society is. If you would prefer a free for all, fine, go join with a group of likeminded people, invade a country, take it over & make it mob rule, whoever has the most power & money gets to do whatever they like to other people & property. Happiness ratings of the people will plummet, life expectancy too, all conditions will. That's why no-one chooses to live without a government anymore! Some people do form their own micro-nations, secure countries tend to not feel at all threatened by them, conditional to them still paying their taxes, cause failing to do that, they do see as a threat, since others could follow & they're also required to follow the host country's primary laws, but within their own "nation" they can do what they like really. In my country, we even had one cult, not declare themselves a "micronation", as they did not want to draw attention to themselves, but they lived as if they were & even built & tested nuclear bombs on the land they'd bought. Cause they'd been keeping to themselves though, no-one actually noticed, they noticed the weird earthquake readings, just didnt' realise it was a nuke until the cult was caught in another country engaging in major terrorist activities, after which, of course the host country co-operated with the INTERNATIONAL community & enforced international laws on them (well would have, if any of them had still been in the host country)
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  3. don't the non-poisonous varieties require much more water & better conditions to grow though? That's my understanding anyway, the poison has developed in the varieties that will grow almost in desert, cause in that environment, being poisonous is the only way to stop yourself from being eaten. Non poisonous ones have never had that evolutionary pressure on them of growing in harsh conditions & are incapable of doing so
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