I would absolutely watch a reality show in which coders and bankers had to do the work of subsistence farmers for a year.https://twitter.com/custerwork/status/1229463296287420419 …
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a) the connection between tertiary education and modern economic success is surprisingly weak (Ha Joon-Chang is very good on this), b) it's quite possible to make this point without denigrating the learning of farmers.
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'this is a reasonable point made in a derogatory way' is not an argument for it.
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He's not describing subsistence farming at all. He's just demonstrating complete ignorance of it. At best he's describing gardening. Gardening really, really poorly.
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All he's actually saying in this clip is "Sure I don't know anything about subsistence farming or manufacturing, but I also don't know anything about the information industry."
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