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> Yet the lives of ordinary people have hardly improved and are arguably worse since the 1980s Read up on improved crop yields for subsidence farmers who got a
by devbent 3y ago
> Yet the lives of ordinary people have hardly improved and are arguably worse since the 1980s
Read up on improved crop yields for subsidence farmers who got access to weather reports through smart phones.
A lot of people are not starving now because of that one change alone.
- lelanthran 3y ago> Read up on improved crop yields for subsidence farmers who got access to weather reports through smart phones. I think that's a poor example. I was getting weather reports on pre-smartphone Nokias. Farmers could have gotten weather reports on feature phones.