Your family isn& #39;t treating you like shit because they& #39;re "forced" to by economics.

They& #39;re doing that because they& #39;re a shitty family.

Let them have the dignity of their choice, & make your own choices accordingly.

In conclusion: No, farmers are not farmworkers.

That& #39;s not an opinion. It& #39;s a fact: farmer & farmworker are concretely different jobs that are counted separately in DOL, USDA, and other demographic statistics.

Tenant farming is a weird liminal space where you don& #39;t own the land- but you DO own your own equipment & client list, & often hire labor yourself.

Esp in today& #39;s farming where it takes a lot of capital to be a tenant farmer, it& #39;s mostly like any other contracting business.

Tenant farming pre-1980 is a whole other animal. If we& #39;re talking historical farm labor, tenant farming & esp sharecropping fall into the farmworker category.

But when we& #39;re talking modern farmworker activism, there& #39;s a big clear dividing line btwn who& #39;s labor & who& #39;s capital.

In conclusion, "farmworkers are the real farmers!" is some grade-A capitalist respectability politics bullshit.

Farmers are capital. That& #39;s concretely reflected in US farm policy, lending policy, & labor statistics.

Farm workers are labor. They self-identify, organize, & call themselves workers. They DO NOT call themselves farmers.

It& #39;s farm *owners* who are pushing that "farmers & farmworkers are the same" narrative. It& #39;s capital.

Don& #39;t fall for it.