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Yes, this is the real problem with the modern world, and I'm afraid it's only getting worse. We're becoming hyper-efficient and scaling things up enormously at
by Amezarak 5y ago
Yes, this is the real problem with the modern world, and I'm afraid it's only getting worse. We're becoming hyper-efficient and scaling things up enormously at the cost of being extremely fragile.
Eventually, some black swan event will happen and we'll have a systems collapse it will be very hard to recover from - because so little of the population will have baseline skills. Thankfully this pandemic wasn't it, but it doesn't seem to have woke up TPTB to the problem.
- IG_Semmelweiss 5y agoThe pandemic was not a black swan event. However i agree with you and i think even the US govt agrees with you. Thats the reason farming subsidies exist
- Amezarak 5y agoUnfortunately, the farming subsidies will not help our massively scaled, centralized, and industrialized farming sector when something like this happens.