The reason why farmers are weak is low income. High income can improve anyone's status. My people are not tall, but my money can get you hooked. You say you are insignificant, but there are so many scum in this society that you don't care about anyone. Although Tao Yuanming broke his waist by five or two meters and lost his official position, he did not return home, but there were also many officials in the court. It is a social consensus that farmers' income is low, but the question is, why is farmers' income low? The first reason for the low income of farmers is that there are many farmers, which is far below the threshold of modern agriculture.
When we go to study in the countryside, we often meet some people. They are the hardest workers in the world, earning the lowest wages, but people in government offices do nothing all day, earning so much wages, and farmers are exploited. This statement makes sense, but wages in this world are not based on hard work, but on contributions to society, especially marginal contributions. Farmers can make a great contribution, but the marginal contribution is very small.
What is rare is the eternal truth in the world. Farmers produce the most important things in the world, but their income is the lowest, so there is no question of who exploits whom. The key is that there are too many farmers and farmers can't get higher profits. Farmers' competitors are definitely not from the city. City people are buyers of agricultural products. The more people in the city, the more consumers will buy agricultural products. Farmers' competitors are farmers. As long as a farmer makes money from some agricultural products, many farmers will join in overnight and produce a large number of homogeneous agricultural products, resulting in a sharp drop in the price of their products and no profit. Too many farmers is the fundamental reason why farmers' income in China cannot be improved.