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I'd guess most of the value chain in servicing combines probably contributes to urban rather than rural economies? I am all for food at home going from 1/2-1/3

I'd guess most of the value chain in servicing combines probably contributes to urban rather than rural economies? I am all for food at home going from 1/2-1/3 of family expenses to 5-6 percent over the centuries. Now that food has been done, how about we work on shelter?

h2odragon 3y ago
> how about we work on shelter? we are. I built my place 20 years ago; from lumber i bought pre-milled, delivered to my site on a truck. I didn't hafta cut any trees myself and make them into boards. The cost of that lumber (measured however) was a fragment of what it would have been 200 years ago, too. Same thing, tho. The forestry industry then could only be called "nascent" in comparison to today's. The input labor goes down but it spreads out and becomes hard to quantify compared to being able to say "one human with hand tools can turn tree into X board feet of lumber in N hours"
meristohm 3y ago
In contrast, I'm all for a significant proportion of our efforts going towards obtaining food, directly or indirectly, because it is one of the most valuable activities animals do. Look at the impact on earth's climate that all the extra money (not necessarily time) continues to cause. I'm in part informed by Gabor Maté here, who has said[0] that a lot of our trauma derives from human domestication. [0] Rewild Yourself (podcast), episode 110, 2016-09-14, interview starts 28 minutes in. Overcast link: https://overcast.fm/+BxRoWUClo/28:00 https://overcast.fm/+BxRoWUClo/28:00