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A 100 years ago it would take a 1000 people to plant, maintain, and pick a farm that would take a just one person and a machine to do today. Obviously we don't
by wpdev_63 7y ago
A 100 years ago it would take a 1000 people to plant, maintain, and pick a farm that would take a just one person and a machine to do today. Obviously we don't need as many farmers as we did back then and a result of that is the collapse of the food prices.
Do you really care that with all the spending the government does that farmer subsidies are a problem? I'd rather see more people farming than building bombs, evading my privacy for 'security', and wars fought over ideology.
- rabidrat 7y agoTo be fair, that machine took N people to manufacture (along with upkeep, which I imagine that one farm person is no longer doing on the complicated farm machinery), and another M people to drill/refine/transport the fuel, fertilizer, pesticides, and other chemicals needed to run such a farm so efficiently. I wonder how big N+M+1 is..
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- numakerg 7y agoProbably fewer per calorie of food grown.
- Dylan16807 7y ago> I'd rather see more people farming than building bombs, evading my privacy for 'security', and wars fought over ideology. Or instead of either kind of wasteful labor we could let people work fewer hours...
- jaredklewis 7y agoBeing less bad than a bomb is not a very high bar to jump over. I can think of many more productive uses for that money than over-farming, which causes a host of environmental issues.