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by griffordson 3748 days ago
> What would happen if everybody would become Amish overnight?

How much land would that take? How would these new Amish afford the $10K/acre that the best farm land in the US can cost?

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Well you could just say we are an Amish country now, and divide everything by Amish rules. Are there too many people already for all of them to be able to go Amish?

I've read sometime ago that the Amish population doubles in regular intervals, so in theory they should own the whole country after some time?