The rate at, and vehemence with, which people learn to see subsidies as prerogatives(especially the ones that are tied to being in some sort of business; for reasons slightly unclear to me it’s considered vastly more righteous to do something that’s only profitable with punchy subsidies than it is to work a job that leaves you below the threshold for public assistance) is really pretty astonishing.
This isn’t to say that there’s never anything that makes sense to subsidize under some circumstances and you should let the market sort it out, bro; but it doesn’t make watching people who would have a hobby rather than a job if not for EU subsidies screaming about being under Brussels’ brutal jackboots any more sympathetic.
