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Is farming 0.07% of the US economy or of the US workforce? Those are totally different things. Its certainly not 0.07% of US arable land There were bread and r

Is farming 0.07% of the US economy or of the US workforce? Those are totally different things. Its certainly not 0.07% of US arable land There were bread and rice riots around the globe just 10 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007%E2%80%9308_world_food_price_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007%E2%80%9308_world_food_pri...

bryanlarsen 7y ago
> Is farming 0.07% of the US economy or of the US workforce? 0.07% of GDP. It's a higher percentage of workforce, but still under 1% directly employed. Land area is irrelevant to my argument -- greenhouses can feed a lot of people in a small area. > There were bread and rice riots around the globe just 10 years ago. All that says is that Capitalism does a really bad job of supplying stuff to people without any money.