re: #71 Aunty Entity Dragon

The ‘growth of the economy’—the great neoliberal imperative—takes priority over the thriving of the community;

Now that ´point at least is a viable argument: if the change is not for the better (although that is sometimes a subjective call) then people are right to oppose it.

We have seen that in American agriculture: gone is the happy farmer with his pigs, chickens, goats, and fields sown with various market crops: he is now a supplier, usually of a single commodity crop that serves as raw material for industrial processing