• @ttmrichter@lemmy.ml
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      12 years ago

      How large a population can you support in rural America with those prices staying the way they are? The prices in rural America are low because nobody wants to live there. Basic supply/demand. When the demand goes up, so, inevitably, will the prices.

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          12 years ago

          That has several obvious flaws, I think. If everybody is growing their own food (an extremely time-intensive occupation), nobody’s working on, oh, I don’t know, mathematics. Or physics. Or philosophy. Or art. Or … well, you get the drift.

          Bucolic fantasy is very seductive to people who aren’t forced to live it out. The ideal of civilization is to reduce such requirements to zero; to free humans from subsistence living. Which can be done without capitalist distortions and destruction and degradation, but takes watchfulness.

          Let those who want to farm, farm. Let those who want to do something else (non-destructive, naturally) do that instead. Society should be focused on that, not on making billionaires, nor making everybody a subsistence farmer.

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    2 years ago

    how this shit show has not yet fallen apart is a mystery to me 🤷‍♀️

    fingers crossed it’s close 🤗🤗