Getting rid of those things would at most double the farm payrolls, which is sti...

		throwawaygh on April 30, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Is everything falling apart? Getting rid of those things would at most double the farm payrolls, which is still a tiny minority of Americans. For the most part, monocrops, pesticides, and fungicides have HUGE economic efficiency incentives ($ ROI / acre) even if you subtract the contribution to labor efficiency (humans / acre).

That's only true if you don't place a $ value on the environmental impacts.