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I think that is actually a very harmful myth that huge multinational corporations want to keep in people's minds. We produce less food per acre with modern ind
by asdkjh345fd 6y ago
I think that is actually a very harmful myth that huge multinational corporations want to keep in people's minds. We produce less food per acre with modern industrial farming, not more. They optimize for total cost, not for land use. We could feed more people than we feed now just fine without any modern equipment, it would simply create lots of jobs.
- rexreed 6y agoMaybe I should edit the comment to say "... feed as many people as we do at the cost that we do..." because while it's true we can gain the same land productivity with less advanced equipment, it would seem that the total labor cost to do so would make overall food cost very high. Not to mention difficulties in hiring the quantities of people needed. I'm definitely not any sort of knowledgeable expert here, just thinking aloud.
- asdkjh345fd 6y agoWe currently have massive unemployment, and low quality, toxic food. I think rather than giving everyone a "basic income" to purchase that inferior food, we should give them jobs producing better food, and the overall increased price of food wouldn't be any worse than the cost of UBI.