To be fair, that machine took N people to manufacture (along with upkeep, which I imagine that one farm person is no longer doing on the complicated farm machinery), and another M people to drill/refine/transport the fuel, fertilizer, pesticides, and other chemicals needed to run such a farm so efficiently. I wonder how big N+M+1 is..

Probably fewer per calorie of food grown.

> I'd rather see more people farming than building bombs, evading my privacy for 'security', and wars fought over ideology.

Or instead of either kind of wasteful labor we could let people work fewer hours...

Being less bad than a bomb is not a very high bar to jump over.

I can think of many more productive uses for that money than over-farming, which causes a host of environmental issues.