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by wolvesechoes 89 days ago
> To be fair, growing your own food is incredibly inefficient

Life is not an optimization problem.

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However, had we not tried optimising, Malthus would be right and we'd all be dead.

So let's hear it for optimisation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Agricultural_Revolutio...

No, but staying alive is, and food is for staying alive.