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Re:For tech-weary Midwest farmers, 40-year-old tractors now ... by Amezarak on Monday January 06, 2020 @04:31PM (#21973561)
This particular progress makes us vastly more vulnerable to a catastrophic systems collapse. A lot of small, independent farmers are more antifragile to natural events than a few giant megacorporations. We're optimizing for profits at the expense of disaster.
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Re:For tech-weary Midwest farmers, 40-year-old tractors now ... by 8bitsrule on Monday January 06, 2020 @05:25PM (#21974151)
Here we are, in a time when the shortcomings of centralization are rabidly apparent -across the board-. Counting that as some kind of win can only appeal to those who believe they are winning. For all the rest of us, the cheerful irony is more than a little disarming.

Efficiency and longevity can be inversely proportional. May the reductionists alone reap their crop.

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