I visit your garden and take 1 apple from your tree
I visit your garden and take 1000 apples from your tree.
Not that different.
I visit your garden and take 1000 apples from your tree.
Not that different.
And I only charge a tiny subscription for access to all my drone-managed orchards, you can eat as many apples as you want. But don’t steal any and start your own orchard or I sue.
Replace your drones with China or India and you have the current situation in the US.
Apple farmers go out of business so you lose the people who create new varieties.
Steal cuttings, not the fruit, if you plan to start an orchard. From 1000 apples you'll get ~10 000 seeds, statistically you won't even end up with one good tree.
> An output of three cultivars from around 50.000 seeds means that 17.000 seeds were needed to get one cultivar. Only one out of around 9.000 scab resistant seedlings showed the appropriate quality to become a cultivar. This proportion underlines the enormous effort which is necessary to develop a new cultivar.