[righthand]

Can you elaborate why having a less diverse farming economy is good for every individual? Automation didn’t invent commodities so it’s unrelated to the advent of a food surplus. It might make obtaining surplus easier but it didn’t give more purpose to people by forcing them to sell their land to a bigger corporation. Even if 50% of farmers don’t want to be farmers anymore doesn’t mean they’d gladly give up their job for a recliner and ubi.

[sokoloff]

When 80% of Americans were in farming, it's fair to say that it took around 80% of labor to feed America.

If I try to approximate the same today, the median US family can be fed for something around 1/10th of their labor.

That seems like a fantastic improvement, unless you really, really like farming.