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Why would you want to move farmers to cities where they cant farm? who would do the farming then? why not just pay farmers what you would pay a factory worker i
by dangerface 5y ago
Why would you want to move farmers to cities where they cant farm? who would do the farming then? why not just pay farmers what you would pay a factory worker in the city?
Trying to force this doesn't make sense to me.
- monocasa 5y agoBecause agricultural modernization universally requires at least an order of magnitude less labor, and society is then better served by those workers being in urban centers where they can work first in factories then transition to a service economy for the ones who'll work unskilled labor, and concentrate access to quality education for the ones that can contribute intellectually. Those "ghost cities" that the media pearl clutched for a while there have for the most part been slowly filled in with previously agrarian workers making the urban transition.
- bordercases 5y agoChina is deficit in arable land for food. If those farmers aren't reskilling (or even if the labor pool on a whole isn't reskilling, presuming your intellectual contributions don't mean farming) then it's an overall waste of labour.