Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Big Money...
...heroes of this rural drama are the "big and efficient farmers" who "are giving the nation a lesson in Adam Smith economics." They calculate and compute and invest to pile up ever more profits like "Smith said capitalists should." Time fails to note that most farmers could make more money by stashing their assets in a bank vault and living off the interest. According to Time, the results of free market competition have been innovation, growing production and "reasonable costs to consumers...
Myth one: Big is better. In Time's view, efficiency and productivity are the highest economic values, and big farms are the best way to achieve them. There's just one catch--they're dead wrong...
WELL, you might ask, if small farms are actually more efficient than big ones, why are they being gobbled up by the likes of Pat Benedict, who in the past few years has aquired four farms? The article reports that "in three cases, he razed and burned the houses, uprooted graceful shade trees and returned all the land to crops." Time might call that progress, but the dispossessed farmers probably called it robbery...
...sophomore. His junior year he was back at safety and eventually started against Penn and Yale. He was working out over the summer to pack on some extra weight in order to play safety this year when Restic called him at home in California to tell him about the Big Switch. At this point, quips Scott, "yeah, you were sipping a Tequila Sunrise at the beach when you got the call...