Agriculture has become a much smaller part of our economy over time. Imagine you own a farm in Missouri; you can ship your many tons of goods down the Mississip

Agriculture has become a much smaller part of our economy over time. Imagine you own a farm in Missouri; you can ship your many tons of goods down the Mississippi and sell them to billions of people worldwide. Now imagine there is no river. You can sell to people in your immediate region, which being a farming region, is already innundated by similar products. The tyranny of distance and logistics might be hard for people making Internet services to imagine.