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Re:You Are Not Your Job by BobbyJo on Monday March 23, 2026 @12:15AM (#47485444)
To be fair, growing your own food is incredibly inefficient. Agriculture is one of the places where economies of scale shine very very brightly.
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Re:You Are Not Your Job by wolvesechoes on Monday March 23, 2026 @05:24AM (#47487056)
> To be fair, growing your own food is incredibly inefficient

Life is not an optimization problem.

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Re:You Are Not Your Job by amiga386 on Monday March 23, 2026 @06:05AM (#47487364)
However, had we not tried optimising, Malthus would be right and we'd all be dead.

So let's hear it for optimisation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Agricultural_Revolutio...

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Re:You Are Not Your Job by BobbyJo on Monday March 23, 2026 @10:57AM (#47490428)
No, but staying alive is, and food is for staying alive.
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Re:You Are Not Your Job by kuerbel on Monday March 23, 2026 @06:52AM (#47487666)
Not really. Only if you discount all external effects on the environment. There are more productive agriculture systems with more yield per sq* but more manual input, but less side effects. E.g. permaculture.
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