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To be fair, growing your own food is incredibly inefficient. Agriculture is one of the places where economies of scale shine very very brightly.
by BobbyJo 7mo ago
To be fair, growing your own food is incredibly inefficient. Agriculture is one of the places where economies of scale shine very very brightly.
- praddlebus 7mo ago[dead]
- wolvesechoes 7mo ago> To be fair, growing your own food is incredibly inefficient Life is not an optimization problem.
- amiga386 7mo agoHowever, had we not tried optimising, Malthus would be right and we'd all be dead. So let's hear it for optimisation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Agricultural_Revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Agricultural_Revolutio...
- BobbyJo 7mo agoNo, but staying alive is, and food is for staying alive.
- kuerbel 7mo agoNot really. Only if you discount all external effects on the environment. There are more productive agriculture systems with more yield per sq* but more manual input, but less side effects. E.g. permaculture.