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How do you feel about the fact that certain farmers will starve if they can’t grow coca or poppies as a cash crop?
by raganwald 15y ago
How do you feel about the fact that certain farmers will starve if they can’t grow coca or poppies as a cash crop?
- nobody_nowhere 15y agoThe problem with that analogy is that 90%+ of the farmers are growing coca or poppies today. Without a viable alternative "crop" or payment mechanism on the open web, I think the net effect will be to drive all of the content which advertising is paying for today into walled gardens, like a Physorg "app".
- bhousel 15y agoI think the answer he was looking for is: "sad"
- AznHisoka 15y agoHmm.. good point. You know this is a problem too in general. So many useless jobs and useless industries, serving little value to society, yet they are needed because they provide a living for so many people. This is a result of too many humans on Earth. So many people are just not needed on this Earth. So we have to come up with surrogate occupations
- Lockyy 15y agoI think the problem may be less with too many humans and may be with the preoccupation of "Everybody must have a job! 9-5, Monday to Friday. No exceptions or you're a failure and the country is failing and it's all our leaders fault." I mean really, we're heading towards more and more automation. There just aren't going to be as many jobs as there once where. Yes, we might get more programming jobs and management jobs. But not enough to replace the hundreds of jobs replaced by a few robots in a factory.
- zem 15y agoare you seriously invoking the war on drugs to support your point?
- ig1 15y agoI'm glad that they can grow crops that mean they're able to afford to feed their families. I'm pretty sure they are as well.