| ▲ | koliber 2 days ago | |
A long time ago a vast majority of people on earth were farmers. They used relatively simple tools like scathes. Over a few centuries better tools and technology made it so that <5% of the population in rich countries are farmers. They use tools like million dollar harvesters. | ||
| ▲ | legulere 2 days ago | parent [-] | |
It's not the 20x efficiency of harvesting technology compared to what agrarian societies that make them make sense. It's the productivity of the other 95% of the population that makes their labor cost so high that such expensive machines make economic sense. | ||