If a neighboring farmer needs a bit of cash, has some land or equipment, and gets an email (or phone call!) from farmerfred@proofofcorn.com reading generally:

> I'm about to lease some acreage at {address near you} and willing to pay {competitive rate} to hire someone to work that land for me, are you interested?

I see no reason why that couldn't eventually succeed. I'm sure that being an out-of-state investor who doesn't have any physical hands to finalize the deal with a handshake is an impediment, but with enough tokens, Farmer Fred could make 100,000 phone calls and send out 100,000 emails to every landowner and work-for-hire equipment operator in Iowa, Texas, and Argentina by this afternoon. If there exists a human who would make that deal, Fred can eventually find them. Seth would be limited in his chance to succeed in these efforts because he can only make one 1-minute phone call per minute, Fred can become as many callers as Anthropic owns GPUs.

I do find it amusing that Fred currently shows the following dashboard:

    Iowa
    HOLD
    0°F
    Unknown (API error)
    Fred's Thinking: “Iowa is frozen solid. Been through worse. We wait.”

     Fred is here
    South Texas
    HOLD
    0°F
    Unknown (API error)
    Fred's Thinking: “South Texas is frozen solid. Been through worse. We wait.”

    Argentina
    HOLD
    0°F
    Unknown (API error)
    Fred's Thinking: “Argentina is frozen solid. Been through worse. We wait.”

> Fred is here

Ah, they've created SCP-423