• Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    Surplusable farming is literally the basis on which all civilization is built

    Like the whole point of the way things work for us now is that you don’t have to be a farmer or a hunter or a gatherer to be able to have access to a consistent source of food.

    People romanticize about the idealic agrarian past but human civilization was literally invented over how back breakingly difficult that kind of work is for people who aren’t built for it.

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      10 months ago

      Also the fact that one bad year in your tiny part of the world means you and everyone you know die slow agonizing deaths. Fun!

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        10 months ago

        This is also a major point of livestock. If you have more produce than you can eat, feed the excess to some animals and they will keep those calories fresh and delicious over the winter.