Basic needs are priority. Heard a reporter ask Spicer this morning if poor people will have to give up their iPhones so they can afford to pay for the new proposed healthcare. Not making this up.
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is valid on a sociological/cultural level. It begins to break down as it is applied to individuals. Personal values become increasingly altruistic as morality increases.
A father may starve to provide for his children.
An artist may forego personal comfort to pursue artistic perfection.
An entrepreneur may postpone all sorts of personal gratification to fulfill their dream.
Altruism is only one aspect of human dynamics. Starvation, discomfort, lack of hygeine, addiction and other forms of self denial can stem from a wide range of personal dynamics.
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Trump had nice words for several of the CEOs, just not if their competition was sitting right there or it would impact ongoing negotiations.
Abolish welfare and those American workers will be there. We will have to go through some rioting but even rioters get hungry after a very little time.
The technology of agriculture, the tending of plants and animals for the purpose of growing a reasonably reliable food supply for current and future needs of the society, is the basis of much of civilization. From the determination to remain in one relatively fixed location, to the development of the supply line infrastructure, and the resulting problems of keeping growing numbers of human beings in one locality for extended periods of time, the much more complex rules of living together completely swamped the old tribal customs of wandering nomads.
A nation that ignores or fails to adequately support a productive agricultural industry is a nation soon in desperate poverty and become a failed state, rendered helpless in the face of more assertive neighbors. This is why many countries, trying to remain self-sufficient in food production, do not accept even very favorable trade agreements in which they may get very low-cost food from trading partners, because of how uncertain that makes their own self-sufficiency if there is a quarrel or outright hostility from those very prolific neighbors. And once dependent of this cheap supply of food, their own production falls into decline and may very nearly cease altogether.
Indoor farming will just change things is a way most people don’t realize. Cities will become food independent.
The population that the earth can support will 10-100 times.
Indoor farming will give people the 200-500 year window needed to develop the technology to get to the stars. In that 200-500 year window indoor farming will make it possible to farm the deserts of earth the moon and mars.