Macro-farms and thousands of automation systems can make your need for human labour decrease more rapidly than people can find other jobs...
It´s going to be a fuckin´mess, 4 dudes richer and everyone else screwed
It´s going to be a fuckin´mess, 4 dudes richer and everyone else screwed
How will the four people get richer if the food they create is priced so high that no one can buy it?
I get this is deeply economic and philosophical, but it’s an interesting thought experiment.
Taking this to its logical end, the owners of said farms will get richer as the general population earns less on average (due to their labour no longer being needed).
Either that or everyone else gets fed up and violently overthrows them. It could, perhaps, be avoided with higher taxes on the rich, but the rich have the most influence over the tax code.
>We really need farm workers
But point maken
How so? Sustainable farming has nothing to do with a man vs machine doing the labor. Moral as in we need to make sure people can keep doing this job or what kind of argument are you even making? I'd rather see improved social safety nets and job training then some appeal to history that people need to work the fields because we've always done that.
Modern industrial farming practices, designed to optimize agricultural output per unit of labor, are an ecological and environmental travesty. They require the widespread use of pesticides and toxic fertilizers that are decimating the biosphere. Monocropping unsustainably degrades soil quality. And the large contiguous areas used for industrial agricultural operations are extremely disruptive to wildlife.
The most obvious solution to the above is an agricultural system with many more, much smaller farms, where human beings do the work currently done by machines and chemicals.