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Farmers are not smart. They operate outdoor biofactoriea accordong to protocols defined by people far away and using all manner of materials focussed on maintaoning the factory, not the farming.

Ask any agronomist. There's even that Netflix documentary. Industrial farmers understand the economics of their operation, but very little about its biology. They know as much about that as Amazon warehouse workers know about how the GPU you ordered is built.



EVEN a Netflix documentary about it? Wow. You told us, albeit with a few spelling and grammatical mistakes.

If you believe farmers are beholden to whoever you think they serve, you should be twice as suspicious of agronomists who have no literal and figurative skin in the game.


I don’t think brnt’s comment contradicts yours.

They agree that farmers understand financials. But they also restates what you said. Farmers don’t understand the actual biology of farming. They are dependent on the company provided experts for that.

The only real difference between you and the other commenter is your definition of the word “smart”. You both agree on the facts.

Also, “Even a Netflix documentary” is a horrible comeback when the original comment’s “evidence” is as a YouTube video.


Not all farmers understand the depths of the biology they work with, but some probably do.

Not all programmers understand how their instructions influence the circuits that execute them. That does not validate statements like "programmers don't understand electronics."


The majority of programmers on HN probably could not reverse engineer even the simplest 555 timer without at least a week of study.


It's considered rude when someone attempts to speak for the entire reader-base on HN.


Did you reply to the wrong comment?




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