American agriculture is now such a skills and systems-intensive field, college grads aren't prepared to work therehttps://www.marketplace.org/2016/10/10/education/ffa-continues-grow-even-farms-disappear …
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Replying to @SwiftOnSecurity
"A company like John Deere in their precision agriculture unit employs over 2500 computer programmers[...]"
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Replying to @SwiftOnSecurity
I've used farming as a denigrative term before, but 1% of our population is making multiple times the food we can consume. It's incredible.
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Replying to @SwiftOnSecurity
I don't remember historical numbers, but even in eras seen as advancing human achievement, 70%+ of humanity was sustenance farming.
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Replying to @SwiftOnSecurity
One of the most worrying arguments I've heard is that humanity is at a point where, if we fall, we fall forever. An irreversible cascade.
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Replying to @SwiftOnSecurity
It takes billion dollar semiconductor fabs fed by a worldwide supply chain and trade agreements to make our tractors even turn on.
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Replying to @SwiftOnSecurity
Once you conceive the complexity it takes to put food on your plate, it changes your entire perspective on survivability of 90% of humanity.
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Replying to @SwiftOnSecurity
Not really. It's all gratuitous complexity you can achieve the same result without.
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Replying to @RichFelker
Not for supplying for current population, which I think is the point.
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Replying to @pikhq
The complexity is all about maintaining the business model of doing it, not actually doing it.
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Also a huge portion of food production is not meeting needs for survival but rather luxury.
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