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He clearly is talking pre the information age (500 years ago) farming was not complex. Which it wasn't. Now farmers have to use robots, and machinery and data

He clearly is talking pre the information age (500 years ago) farming was not complex. Which it wasn't. Now farmers have to use robots, and machinery and data services and chemicals, breeding patterns. It is far more complex. Fake News FTW. On Twitter even. The clip is specifically cut to be bad, but actually is in context if you have ears, but it seems people are really really stupid.

jelliclesfarm 7y ago
How is it ‘Fake News’? Also: how is it helpful or informative to call ‘people’ ‘really really stupid’? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_agriculture https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_agriculture : wiki link to history of farming. Which kind of farming is as what Bloomberg suggested and as what you think is ‘simple’. ‘500 years ago’ would be 1520 AD. How do you think and what do you think people farmed in 1520?
aiscapehumanity 7y ago
He's literally talking about farmers now.
jelliclesfarm 7y ago
Not Fake News https://www.theblaze.com/news/bloomberg-triggers-bipartisan-backlash-for-condescending-remarks-about-farmers https://www.theblaze.com/news/bloomberg-triggers-bipartisan-... [..]While speaking at the University of Oxford Saïd Business School in 2016, Bloomberg was asked if Americans living on the coasts — who are generally more liberal — could be unified with those who live in middle America, who are generally more conservative. In response, Bloomberg implied that anyone could be a farmer because it requires a low-level of intelligence to be successful. I could teach anybody, even people in this room, no offense intended, to be a farmer. It's a process. You dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on top, add water, up comes the corn. You could learn that. Then we had 300 years of the industrial society. You put the piece of metal on the lathe, you turn the crank in the direction of the arrow and you can have a job. And we created a lot of jobs. At one point, 98 percent of the world worked in agriculture; today it's 2 percent in the United States. Now comes the information economy. And the information economy is fundamentally different because it's built around replacing people with technology and the skill sets that you have to learn are how to think and analyze, and that is a whole degree level different. You have to have a different skill set, you have to have a lot more gray matter.[..]

jelliclesfarm 7y ago

How is it ‘Fake News’? Also: how is it helpful or informative to call ‘people’ ‘really really stupid’? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_agriculture https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_agriculture : wiki link to history of farming. Which kind of farming is as what Bloomberg suggested and as what you think is ‘simple’. ‘500 years ago’ would be 1520 AD. How do you think and what do you think people farmed in 1520?

aiscapehumanity 7y ago

He's literally talking about farmers now.

jelliclesfarm 7y ago

Not Fake News https://www.theblaze.com/news/bloomberg-triggers-bipartisan-backlash-for-condescending-remarks-about-farmers https://www.theblaze.com/news/bloomberg-triggers-bipartisan-... [..]While speaking at the University of Oxford Saïd Business School in 2016, Bloomberg was asked if Americans living on the coasts — who are generally more liberal — could be unified with those who live in middle America, who are generally more conservative. In response, Bloomberg implied that anyone could be a farmer because it requires a low-level of intelligence to be successful. I could teach anybody, even people in this room, no offense intended, to be a farmer. It's a process. You dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on top, add water, up comes the corn. You could learn that. Then we had 300 years of the industrial society. You put the piece of metal on the lathe, you turn the crank in the direction of the arrow and you can have a job. And we created a lot of jobs. At one point, 98 percent of the world worked in agriculture; today it's 2 percent in the United States. Now comes the information economy. And the information economy is fundamentally different because it's built around replacing people with technology and the skill sets that you have to learn are how to think and analyze, and that is a whole degree level different. You have to have a different skill set, you have to have a lot more gray matter.[..]