# World economy

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-economy/684148>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 20, 2014, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-economy/684148 "2014-03-20T11:03:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-economy/684148/21 "2014-03-22T14:30:40Z")

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> [@Ken001](#):
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> Farmers hopefully would survive or else the rest of us would starve to death.

Monsanto will not sell them seed after they default on their loans. Most big time farmers are now owned by evil corpotations with chains made of credit. Farmers will barely grow enough to feed themselves and not care about the outsiders that brought civilization as we know it down. Didn’t Russians starve after the communist took over farming?

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