if they measure everything as a minimization problem with respect to cost efficience and yield.
Well to be fair, that 3rd home in the Hamptons and a bigger yacht are not going to pay for themselves.
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EunieIsTheBus@feddit.de 5 months ago
Is probably true. However, one should question their world view if they measure everything as a minimization problem with respect to cost efficience and yield.
if they measure everything as a minimization problem with respect to cost efficience and yield.
Well to be fair, that 3rd home in the Hamptons and a bigger yacht are not going to pay for themselves.
Donkter@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I think it’s less about ruthless efficiency and more about which system will enable even the poorest in society to have nutritious food.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
as if this system has done so…
nxdefiant@startrek.website 5 months ago
250 years ago people would rent pineapples for parties as status symbols because they cost $8000.
Nowadays the most expensive pineapple you can get is barely $400.
That’s progress
stiephel@feddit.de 5 months ago
If it helps, I could sell you a pineapple for more than that.
Shardikprime@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Is that Canadian toonies?
Donkter@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Not saying anything about the system, just about which farming method has the most potential to equitably distribute resources.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 5 months ago
I get what you mean. Our system produces a ridiculous amount of quantity, which should be great! But in the context of where it’s firmly placed within existing socioeconomics, stupid things happen like “destroying all the product to keep the value from crashing” and the “distribution problem” that feeding the poor isn’t profitable.
Maybe industrial agriculture wouldn’t be so terrible if food production for the human race didn’t operate on the same metrics as handbags or funkopops. =\
Welt@lazysoci.al 5 months ago
Borlaug’s green revolution of the mid-20th century did lead to a rapid reduction in famines across Asia and Africa…
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I mean. It has? Even the poorest of the poor eat better than they did a hundred years ago