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> Farming automation and the green revolution didn't make us all unemployed - it meant 90% of us could do something else instead of farming.

There was actually a lot of fear that there would be mass starvation and competition for food because food production could not match population increase. It was an existential threat, much like how we look at global warming. And that fear today? Gone, and most people never even knew it existed.



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