06-13-2016, 11:07 AM
I agree that everyone should be encouraged to raise a garden, but there is no way there is enough land in large cities for everyone to grow their own food.
Plus, if you look at the cost of production large corporate farmers can produce food cheaper than millions of individuals growing their own food. It works the same way with pretty much everything. That is why society has evolved they way it has. Specialization makes everything cheaper for everyone. It is cheaper for one farmer to buy a tractor and use it to grow 100 acres of wheat than for 100 people to each buy a tractor to grow one acre of wheat each. In one case it takes one $20K tractor investment to grow 100 acres and in the other case it requires $2 million in tractor investment to grow 100 acres.
There is also the issue of the best use of human skills. It is easier for one person to spend hundreds of hours to learn how to be a doctor or engineer than to have each individual spend the same number of hours. Society is MUCH more efficient and costs are much lower when we have specialization. 100 people could learn 100 different skills in the same amount of time it takes 100 people to learn one single skill.
Plus, if you look at the cost of production large corporate farmers can produce food cheaper than millions of individuals growing their own food. It works the same way with pretty much everything. That is why society has evolved they way it has. Specialization makes everything cheaper for everyone. It is cheaper for one farmer to buy a tractor and use it to grow 100 acres of wheat than for 100 people to each buy a tractor to grow one acre of wheat each. In one case it takes one $20K tractor investment to grow 100 acres and in the other case it requires $2 million in tractor investment to grow 100 acres.
There is also the issue of the best use of human skills. It is easier for one person to spend hundreds of hours to learn how to be a doctor or engineer than to have each individual spend the same number of hours. Society is MUCH more efficient and costs are much lower when we have specialization. 100 people could learn 100 different skills in the same amount of time it takes 100 people to learn one single skill.
