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Re:Coders Programming Themselves Out of a Job (2018) by jcranmer on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @10:22AM (#21814338)
While the answer is difficult to ascertain, anthropological comparisons between farmers and hunter-gatherers suggests that the answer is rather close to 0.

Fun fact: hunter-gatherer lifestyles require far less work to maintain self-sufficiency than agricultural lifestyles. In fact, it wasn't until around 1900 or so that agricultural societies caught up to hunter-gatherer societies in metrics such as life expectancy and general health welfare.

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Re:Coders Programming Themselves Out of a Job (2018) by smallnamespace on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @02:47PM (#21817890)
What happens when hunter-gatherers and farmers come into conflict over land, which the latter utilize far more efficiently (in a calories / sq km sense)?

Note that as population densities rise, land becomes a bottleneck for a population more than number of available hours.

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Re:Coders Programming Themselves Out of a Job (2018) by laurentnotsaint on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @12:28PM (#21815979)
https://www.statnews.com/2017/03/17/heart-bolivian-hunter-ga...
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