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There will be 10 billion people on Earth. Growing food for them needs a tiny area in highly developed countries via industrial farming. But what would that 10bn
by thriftwy 9y ago
There will be 10 billion people on Earth. Growing food for them needs a tiny area in highly developed countries via industrial farming. But what would that 10bn people do then?
- JumpCrisscross 9y agoAre you seriously asking what productive work people can do other than farming?
- thriftwy 9y agoI'm seriously asking what productive work can billions of people from underdeveloped and unstable countries do. Without access to lucrative markets, too.
- forkLding 9y agoMove from primary to secondary and then tertiary or just jump to tertiary or even reach quanternary sector Talking about three sector theory
- imtringued 9y agoI think the parent implies that automation and lack of capital to invest into automation will make those sectors inaccessible to untrained and unskilled people in developing countries. Usually inequality between countries or people is reduced by rich and poor trading with each other. But what if the poor have nothing to offer to the rich? Then the only option is to work for their own sustenance which means farming.
- thriftwy 9y agoThere's this saying about comparative advantage. But what happens when poor country doesn't have any comparative advantages over rich country? Or a few really tiny and disgusting ones which definitely won't support hundreds of millions people?
- krastanov 9y agoEven a person with mimimal education and access to some resources can contribute to society (ugh, and the economy) in so many amazing ways, but it is fair to be worried that the first generation (and more) in the places with exploding population will probably lack those initial resources. As always, it is not about the availability, rather the distribution (of opportunities and resources).
- atmosx 9y agoRead Plato, Kant and Keynes. Possibly write new plays, enjoy wine and explore space?
- wavefunction 9y agoI think with climate change wine won't necessarily be as available as it once was.
- mark_edward 9y agoThe correct answer is most likely languish in poverty at the margins of society.
- atmosx 9y agoTo depressing. I'd like to be positive and believe that in a many years from now we'll be able to reach a star-trek economy, hopefully before we reach that level of tech.
- mcv 9y agoWe already produce enough food for 10 billion people. We just choose not to feed them all. World hunger is very much an economic-political choice. We give that food to cattle instead. Or we just waste it.