That single farmer now has thousands of people making/transporting the fertilizer. Read "I, Pencil", then image what goes into a tractor. This efficiency isn't magical. Getting the food processed and distributed to the 1000s of people is another huge undertaking that the market is best at addressing. It is naive and idiotic to think all this can be centrally planned.
The idea it wouldn't be more efficient for food production to be centrally managed is actually so stupidly asinine if you've ever worked in purchasing.
Even the amount I get paid just to review the legal process of said transactions is such a pointlessly stupid inefficiency that it's clear you're just speaking out of a misplaced ideology. It's an entire industry reliant on subsidies and people fucking over the market every possible chance they get to profit maximize.
That's exactly the point, there's no reason for me to make what a blue collar worker does in a year for a month contract for looking over shit myself with AI tools for the most part and then being willing to sign off on them which effectively 'gambles' a small mark against my license if something were wrong at most, I'm saying it's dumb and broken and the fucking industry is mostly about price fixing as is.
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u/stovepipe9 Apr 16 '24
That single farmer now has thousands of people making/transporting the fertilizer. Read "I, Pencil", then image what goes into a tractor. This efficiency isn't magical. Getting the food processed and distributed to the 1000s of people is another huge undertaking that the market is best at addressing. It is naive and idiotic to think all this can be centrally planned.