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Some sports cars have more owners from the top 1 percent than the bottom 60. What's the big deal? Besides, farming is the backbone of civilization. You don't n
by xyzzy4 10y ago
Some sports cars have more owners from the top 1 percent than the bottom 60. What's the big deal?
Besides, farming is the backbone of civilization. You don't need much education for that. Everything we have nowadays is extra.
- cmdrfred 10y agoFarming is less than 1% of human activity currently.
- xyzzy4 10y agoIn India it's half of the workforce. So I don't think your 1% is accurate. Also most jobs are nonessential for human survival, unlike agriculture.
- cmdrfred 10y agoIn first world nations it is. The US has 3.2 million farmers and a population of 325 million or so. I don't know if your figure is inaccurate, misleading or farmers in India are extremely inefficient.
- xyzzy4 10y ago"Today, India ranks second worldwide in farm output. Agriculture and allied sectors like forestry and fisheries accounted for 13.7% of the GDP (gross domestic product) in 2013,[2] about 50% of the workforce.[3][4]" - Wikipedia
- cmdrfred 10y agoWow, the output of a single American farmer must be an order of maginatude higher than an Indian one. Not really something I'd strive for.
- vonmoltke 10y ago50% of the population is in agriculture, not farming. Total agriculture represents about 10% of US jobs, but only 10% of agriculture jobs are farming jobs.
- battlebot 10y agoWhat's funny is, all the farmers I have met were millionaires. I know that isn't strictly true, but many do very well for themselves. Land value has a lot to do with it, I suppose.
- JumpCrisscross 10y agoIndia keeps its agricultural sector inefficient as a jobs program. Compare the yields from India to best-in-class producers of the same products [1]. For the top 5 products (excluding Buffalo milk) Indian production is 70% less efficient. (Buffalo milk is excluded because I don't have a source for best-in-class production.) [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_India https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_India Largest agricultural products in India by value
- WildUtah 10y agoAbout 3% of people in modern developed rich countries work in farming. In every other kind of country, it's more. In Africa and India it's the majority still. But 150 years ago—and for 10,000 years before that—farming employed 90% or more of the workforce in every country.
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- Qworg 10y agoSports cars don't determine the trajectory of your life. Also, farming is heavily automated and done by very few hands outside of truck crops. Farming truck crops is low wage, incredibly difficult work that we generally use illegal labor for.
- xyzzy4 10y agoWhy do lives need a trajectory other than survival? Seems unnecessary and merely a cultural phenomenon. This is why higher education is a luxury.
- mabbo 10y agoAre you offering to move to a farm and live off $20,000/year?
- dawnbreez 10y agoI'd frickin' love 20 grand, if it were steady. That having been said, I'm in a CCNT course for a reason: I could be lliving on a steady 40 grand and not have to wprry about backbreaking work every day.
- battlebot 10y agoBetter watch it, common sense is downvoted pretty hard here at HN! There are ways to better oneself without ever setting foot in a college or university. How did America's forefathers survive! I was the first person in my entire male lineage to attend college and yet I come from a long line of successful businessmen.