America’s Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs

Re:America’s Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs by JoeAltmaier on Thursday October 13, 2016 @10:36AM (#12701009)

Easy to say "the economy". But Iowa, for instance, is all planted up. Not going to find another 3 million acres to plant. Much less 100X that. No matter how many people you throw at the problem. It just doesn't scale.

And most any place else has less yield per acre. So now what? Its a big world but the low hanging fruit is already in use.

100X is a mighty stretch. Even Wallace and Borlaug would throw up their hands.

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Re:America’s Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs by bryanlarsen on Thursday October 13, 2016 @11:20AM (#12701304)

3 million acres? That's the 10 largest ranches in Texas. Cover them over with greenhouses rather than the prime farmland in Iowa. And Texas ranches are relatively productive compared to Montana or Alaska or the Sahara or ...

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