Re:How Elon Musk and Y Combinator Plan to Stop Computers fro...
by Retric on Friday December 11, 2015 @06:40PM
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There are often 3+ intermediaries between many farm products and the consumer. Dropping that to 1 chould be a huge change. Cow, wholesale, bottler, distributer, store, you. Granted, there is a lot of variety in this as some farms do there own botteling etc, but some products pass through even more hoops.
Your food shopping point still needs middlemen. You have "chain of trust" issues with the producers. How do you know that you'll get good oranges from the orange grove. Who capitalizes the distribution system and designs the business model.
Considering historical examples, we'll see more use for people in the economic problems that are still machine hard. Machine easy economic problems will converge to resource costs + any premium for monopoly. This will free up more demand for other products. People still want to buy an easier, better life.