I do agree with you pompa, it's just that currently farming is worrying me hugely at present because no-one I know can persuade their children to take on the farms. For the older generations this often means a huge upheaval after generations of living on the same land. Most of us get used to moving and few of us get to live in our parents' houses, so it is taken as a sign of failure to either sell up and move out upon retirement, or give up the lease on a house that the family has been in for a couple of hundred years.
But I think the two are comparable, I watched as a beautiful farm next door to where I lived in Kent was bought by Hughie Bachelor, he of peas fame, who went to prison after years and years of buying up small farms and destroying the environment, all in the name of farming efficiency. He was the equivalent of a giant manufacturer of a single car component who builds a vast factory on land too close to a town, employs a few people and more robots and then moves the operation to another country, leaving the factory derelict behind him, after being given grants to start it up in the expectation of him employing more people. I watched and cried as hedgerows, giant oaks and entire streams were bulldozed. My area was blighted, as are those of many people who have giant factories suddenly popping up in front of their windows.
I would love it if people kept their businesses small. It is becoming, as you say, so hard to find a service or buy a part that isn't manufactured abroad.
Ex's father had an electrical contracting business employing 30 men. He went under because he stupidly believed that security and faster payment would finally happen if he took on more local council work. They were the worst payers of all and he went bankrupt, yet he had more work than he could handle.
Is there anyone who still thinks that Israel's actions in Gaza are justifiable?