I would consider those cash crops yeah because those are the intended purposes and a lot of it can’t even be used for human consumption even if you wanted to. Wheat has industrial uses (literally everything does) but I’ve never heard of it being grown on anywhere near the scale of those for those purposes
Anyway Google’s lying machine says i’m wrong but i still disagree
Every now and then i feel like the entire world retcons some bit of language into some absolute fucking nonsense and this is one of those times. A cash crop isn’t a cash crop just because it’s sold for fucking money, it’s a cash crop if being sold for money is all it’s fucking good for!
The commodity is, first of all, an external object, a thing which through its qualities satisfies human needs of whatever kind. The nature of these needs, whether they arise, for example, from the stomach, or the imagination, makes no difference. Nor does it matter here how the thing satisfies man’s need, whether directly as a means of subsistence, i.e. an object of consumption, or indirectly as a means of production.
all crops that are sown to be sold on the market are commodities, wrongly named cash crops.
While I’ll concede that commodity better captures the social relation, I disagree that cash crop is somehow the wrong name. In the context of my initial comment it worked well enough, I thought.
In any case, I’m gonna drop this, we’ve gotten way past constructive discourse here. I did appreciate your contributions though.
Yes, wouldn’t cash crops be for instance corn and soy which are largely not for human consumption (biofuels/livestock feed)
I would consider those cash crops yeah because those are the intended purposes and a lot of it can’t even be used for human consumption even if you wanted to. Wheat has industrial uses (literally everything does) but I’ve never heard of it being grown on anywhere near the scale of those for those purposes
Anyway Google’s lying machine says i’m wrong but i still disagree
Google is psyoping again trust the plan 🌽🌾
Every now and then i feel like the entire world retcons some bit of language into some absolute fucking nonsense and this is one of those times. A cash crop isn’t a cash crop just because it’s sold for fucking money, it’s a cash crop if being sold for money is all it’s fucking good for!
This makes it sound like cash crops are the agricultural equivalent of NFTs lol
all crops that are sown to be sold on the market are commodities, wrongly named cash crops.
While I’ll concede that commodity better captures the social relation, I disagree that cash crop is somehow the wrong name. In the context of my initial comment it worked well enough, I thought.
In any case, I’m gonna drop this, we’ve gotten way past constructive discourse here. I did appreciate your contributions though.