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About 1% of people are involved in farming, add a few more percent for food distribution, building maintenance and water bottling and you have your rough answer
by moffkalast 1y ago
About 1% of people are involved in farming, add a few more percent for food distribution, building maintenance and water bottling and you have your rough answer. Pretty much all of us are doing frivolous nonsense in survival terms.
- card_zero 1y ago[Something about supply chains.] Who makes bottles? Do the farmers have plows, or just pointy sticks? I guess it could look like the neolithic, if you allow them pottery, and that's a kind of survival, but do you also want to protect them from invasion and diseases? How much survival is the aim? Wouldn't science, and innovation, and creativity, help improve survival? So ... imagination? Comic books? Pets? Poodle manicurists? But of course survival ceases to be the main goal by this point.
- WalterBright 1y agoThat frame doesn't account for all the technology and logistical support for farming. For example, where does his tractor come from? You need an industrial society to be able to build tractors, fuel them, etc. You need a transportation network to import oranges from Mexico. And so on. Without a tractor, there'd be a major percentage of the population working on farms.
- IAmBroom 1y agoSurvival also requires medicines, trained doctors and nurses, and medical devices. For starters.