nah the reason why people are working full time in the US today is not because food production requires that much work input, it’s because of everything else.
to produce food, according to some calculations, you need about 1.2 hours per person per week on average. source: read it a while ago. 2% of population produce enough food for 200% of population, assume these 2% work 60 hrs/week, that makes 1.2 hours per week if 100% of people were working in agriculture.
the reason why the people work full time is not because food production takes that much effort, but because agriculture is not the only thing that people are busy in. so you don’t have 100% of people working “for food”. it’s everything else that takes the 98% of effort, not the food production.
dustyData@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah, those people doing the work to produce food are starving. What is your point?
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
You’re conflating human rights with a human need as if through sheer force of ideology you can make food magically poof into existence.
In the past, million of people starved because of this way of thinking.
Sorry, but producing food requires people to do work. When you try to make something that involves work into something purely about ideology, bad things happen.
dustyData@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
There’s people working 60+ hours a week and also starving. Again, what is your point?
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Nobody is stopping you from donating to the food bank and volunteering your time at a soup kitchen. What’s your point?