Article 379FR Free the Farms, Feed the Poor

Free the Farms, Feed the Poor

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When informed that the already starving French had run out of bread, Marie Antoinette famously responded: "Then let them eat cake!" In this (likely fictitious) exchange, the Queen effectively personified the separation of the state aristocracy from the plight of the common man. Today, the state is equally as inept when it comes to feeding the poor.

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