Agriculture used to be more than 50% of ALL employment in the USA. Now it's barely 2%. Ever wondered why?
I understand the spirit of this, but most of this alarmism is misguided in my view.
I understand the spirit of this, but most of this alarmism is misguided in my view.
Then you stopped needing them, a USDA census in 1959 showed the horse population had dropped to 4.5 million.
Now they're mostly used for riding, and in 2023, there were about 6.65 million horses.
(Citation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horses_in_the_United_States#St...)
There's no law of nature that says "there's always a place for more horses", and anyone who suggested there might be would get laughed at. Well, there's also no law of nature that says "there's always a place for more humans", to butcher a like from CGP Grey a little over a decade ago.
Mechanisation
But did you ever wonder what happened to the displaced workers? I'm not an expert on the agricultural changes in the USA, but in the UK, huge amount of tumult can be directly attributed to agricultural changes.
(or anything to do with the displacement of peasant to the towns)
How many of those works displaced survived the winter? You know they lost their homes as well right? Those dustbowlers, how were their life chances?
Sure new jobs were created, and the mechanisation boom that stared in the 40s and lasted through to the 70s was _brilliant_
But thats not going to happen again with AI, where are the jobs going to come from, much less decent paying ones.
It's preprocessed food and sugar intake in general that are particularly bad in the US.
My bias is now simply, its the sugar. No not only. But far and away the number one culrpit.