I would suggest everybody read up on the Casa Grande Valley Farms project. It really is fascinating. FDR tried building a communist farming community.
They invited a few dozen farmer families and gave them a house plus 40 acres to work. The land wasn’t enough to turn a profit, even given the engineering that went behind the crop selection and rotation schemes. So most of the big necessary farm equipment was held in common.
They would share the tractors, and the granary, the barn, and the livestock. Their crops would be sold together. All would be shared. And a supplemental income would be provided by the department of agriculture.
This dynamic took a few years to wear down. Disagreements over tractor use, sudden cuts to their pay, uneven contributions to the common crop yield. There were also strict rules about working hours, and days off. This chafed the workers.
When interviewed the families all said they would much rather have their own farm. They felt like tenants. “Property held in common is looked after by none.” Was once again proven to be true. The tractors and other machinery broke down, no one cleaned the communal buildings, eventually they stopped being used.
FDR’s experiment with communism failed. The families moved on, the fields went fallow. So FDR turned it into a concentration camp for the Japanese. Yes seriously that’s what they did with the land.
lol he was such a POS president.
They invited a few dozen farmer families and gave them a house plus 40 acres to work. The land wasn’t enough to turn a profit, even given the engineering that went behind the crop selection and rotation schemes. So most of the big necessary farm equipment was held in common.
They would share the tractors, and the granary, the barn, and the livestock. Their crops would be sold together. All would be shared. And a supplemental income would be provided by the department of agriculture.
This dynamic took a few years to wear down. Disagreements over tractor use, sudden cuts to their pay, uneven contributions to the common crop yield. There were also strict rules about working hours, and days off. This chafed the workers.
When interviewed the families all said they would much rather have their own farm. They felt like tenants. “Property held in common is looked after by none.” Was once again proven to be true. The tractors and other machinery broke down, no one cleaned the communal buildings, eventually they stopped being used.
FDR’s experiment with communism failed. The families moved on, the fields went fallow. So FDR turned it into a concentration camp for the Japanese. Yes seriously that’s what they did with the land.
lol he was such a POS president.
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