The time is coming when people who know how to farm will be the most valued people in society.
Food comes from Walmart, didn’t you know./s
I remember a discussion with Senator Grassley regarding family farms. His comment was “we’ve been trying to save the family farm for 40 years, have we gotten any closer?”
He was right.
But family farming isn’t fashionable right now. Other things like racism and global warming are.
Many, many years ago there was series on TV called “Connections”.
A man named James Burke would take some common everyday object
and talk about all the things that had to happen in the past for that thing to exist.
Watch these two youtube videos by James Burke:
The first one (8 minutes) is about how civilization began.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2xY6bjGj24
The second one (6 minutes) is about how civilization ends.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKELMR6wACw
[hint: the answer is a 4 letter word]
Java is part of Indonesia. In 2021 GPD was $11,900 per person.
In the US, GDP was $63,700 per person in 2021.
This is why family farming works in Java and does not in the US.