Not sure about this article...its very anecdotal.

However, assuming its true, then the Soviets invented large scale farming, and the only difference between this big corporate farming we have and the Soviet state farms is ownership of capitalization...both are/were capitalized by banks, but the banks are state owned or privately owned.

So you are all a big fat load of bullocks!

Meantime you little grimlins demand that China have private farms and at the same time sell off the land to private owners?

LUNATIC ASYLUM!! Strickly insane. No decent person can make ANY sense of all this.

I take your point. I would say it's a matter of incentives. The government worker has little incentive to increase productivity that could go back into the pockets of labor and hold down prices.

Of course, when control of the market is consolidated into just a few hands I think you're pretty much back to the same place - no incentive to put money into labor's pockets, and total control over prices.

If you want to know what it feels like - just check out your phone or cable TV bill.