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Faster or slower than setting up farm infra from near scratch to feed 140 million people?
by LetMePostMore 2y ago
Faster or slower than setting up farm infra from near scratch to feed 140 million people?
- lovich 2y agoIt’s slower. Significantly slower. Farming is a mostly solved process now that can be automated. That’s why the labor force of agriculture went from the majority to like 2% of the population post industrialization. Being a doctor is highly incentivized financially and culturally and we haven’t seen anywhere near that level of efficiency gains of training doctors. At minimum each new doctor needs ~26 years to get to our standards. Lower it by a fuck ton, go a crazy as you want and you still are on a decade plus from deciding to mint a new dr to having your doogie bowser diagnosing people. This is the same fucking mistake the South made during the civil war[1]. The red states do not appear to understand what it takes to run a modern economy [1] “The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical and determined people on earth - right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with.”