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[–] machiabelly@hexbear.net 70 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

technically anything that grows a cash crop is a plantation. If a sugar cane plantation had collective ownership it be a plantation co-op. Just like how it would be a farm co-op if it grew veggies.

The weird part is avoiding ownership and work. "we lived on a sugar can plantation" versus "we lived on our sugarcane plantation." Her talking about the quaint idyllic life of harvesting sugarcane ignoring the, potentially, hundreds of slaves that were actually doing the harvesting, also strange and weird and sus.

[–] honeynut@lemm.ee 34 points 2 years ago (2 children)

also sugarcane is like a thick tree branch so ain't no way a 4-yr-old is harvesting anything with a sickle other than sprouts or leaves

[–] machiabelly@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Also harvesting it is dangerous difficult work that nobody would want their kid to do anyway. We love our gusanos don't we folks

[–] D3FNC@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago

It's the royal we