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We've made a couple advances in food production, storage, and distribution in the decades since Hammurabi last walked the earth.
by BigTTYGothGF 2mo ago
We've made a couple advances in food production, storage, and distribution in the decades since Hammurabi last walked the earth.
- ben_w 2mo agoAnd still we are subject to bad harvests, floods, droughts, pests, and diseases. Any given farmer still has to deal with the consequences of this, even if a nation, or humanity collectively, is better insulated. Futures contracts are themselves also more developed than what was in those laws.