Re:People Had to Be Convinced of the Usefulness of Electricity
by michaelmrose on Sunday March 19, 2023 @03:37PM
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If you want to be mercenary about it farms already require only a tiny fraction of the rural population to run and will in the future require even fewer. We need the land. Virtually all of the folks not so much.
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Re:People Had to Be Convinced of the Usefulness of Electricity
by gameman144 on Sunday March 19, 2023 @04:02PM
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This is absolutely true, and the required subsidies for those places with mass exoduses will presumably drop over time (though will like increase per remaining person for those few necessary remaining people).