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Re:A Random Distribution of Wealth (2017) by towaway15463 on Friday June 24, 2022 @04:45PM (#31869064)
You forget that those 2% of farmers are now supported by the entire bulk of an industrial economy. The work hasn’t disappeared, it’s just moved to other sectors like tractor and fertilizer production, genetic research, the petroleum industry, shipping networks, refrigeration and all the other things that make it possible to produce so much food with a small number of farmers. Until we automate all of that we’re no where near post scarcity.
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Re:A Random Distribution of Wealth (2017) by banannaise on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @11:19AM (#31908853)
Most of which could be straightforwardly marshaled to handle food logistics, thus solving this problem, except that there are other priorities that are apparently more important.

(Those priorities are not, in fact, more important.)

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Re:A Random Distribution of Wealth (2017) by jjoonathan on Saturday June 25, 2022 @08:02PM (#31879797)
If you added up the "roots" of that 2%, it would multiply by a small factor. Wooo. Big deal. Same conclusion: we're not just post scarcity, we're distantly post-scarcity.
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