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Stu Rawlings[_2_]

On 2/12/2021 3:54 PM, wrote:
> On Friday, February 12, 2021 at 1:37:16 PM UTC-6, Stu Rawlings wrote:
>>
>> On 2/12/2021 2:32 PM, Bruce wrote:
>>
>>> I'll eat corn, but I don't understand why Americans make such a big
>>> deal of it.
>>>
>> Cash crop.
>>
> It might be a cash crop, but that doesn't make the ones consuming it
> wealthy.
>
I meant the farmers that grow it, not the consumers. It's also
a fuel now.
>
> Tobacco is a cash crop as well, but those consuming tobacco
> products are not getting rich off of it.
>
Massive wealth has come from *growing* tobacco, for decades upon
decades, not so much from consuming it.