[willcipriano]

What percentage of indigenous people were involved in farming? 100%? It's less than 3% today.

[throwaway4aday]

So your solution is to give up your job and return to subsistence farming? Let us know how that works out.

[willcipriano]

No, my point is everyone would to do it that way.

[LarryMullins]

Without experience, land, and modern industrial farming techniques? No, "everybody" would not start subsistence farming. There would be massive famines, billions would starve and die.

[midasuni]

I think everyone’s on the same page.

But if you ignore the labour demands per mouth fed, the education needed, the amount of land to feed current western population to sustainable replacement level, the requirement to maintain advanced defence systems to prevent land being taken or otherwise destroyed, the issues with the global climate affecting whatever you do in this agrarian society, could it be done?

[zo1]

Interesting, coming just now from the thread talking about AGI, AI eliminating most jobs and thus necessitating UBI as a result.

[HDThoreaun]

Currently 1.3% of American jobs are farming.