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Re:Ask HN: What’s the most important modern simple invention? by derefr on Monday February 10, 2020 @05:53PM (#22294294)
More land would necessarily be farmland (i.e. there'd be less land "free" to dedicate to other things); so there'd probably need to be more farmers to work the additional land. Even in the modern world where a farm is mostly robots, one person can only manage so much land and so many robots (essentially the amount of land they can easily traverse in a few hours to check up on.)
Re:Ask HN: What’s the most important modern simple invention? by 80386 on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @10:33AM (#22299226)
And large-scale automated farming is less productive per acre than small-scale labor-intensive farming.