I have a hard time seeing how remedying the problem of a food desert would be a bad thing. The damage to people's health of a food desert is extraordinary. If you need to look at it as the associated health costs, fine. Good thing.
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For sure, definitely a good thing that they did it. The question is whether we should be more happy that they did it... or unhappy that a government had to open a supermarket so people can eat. That's not supposed to, um, be an active area of market failure is it?
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Municipal markets are not exactly a new idea.https://www.pps.org/gps/public-markets …
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Government-run farms worked so well in Eurasia last century, let’s experiment with that too while we’re at it!
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Definitely think it's bad to need to do this. The question is what's the alternative...
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Tough call. That withdrawal is likely a symptom of a larger problem. If groceries-as-public-infra are treated as a stopgap measure until the root cause is resolved that would be ideal. Unfortunately, stopgaps remove the problem's urgency so it's left unchecked until it blows up.
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Truth. I think the nuance is probably where the right answer lies... like I'd love a plan for how they'd have a private market solution come to town...
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Sheesh with the amount we subsidize farming in America you think we’d be interested in selling those goods in our own economy
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the best would be if government incentivized or even taught community members to found their own stores so they could build private, small-town wealth through owning a business. But if this was the only way to feed people, had to be done.
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