That’s a good point, but it also drives population growth through less famine/starvation, which creates land scarcity, which creates (more) land ownership, which limits or stops individuals being able to forrage for themselves - which is what the meme is referring to. As you say, it’s complicated, but the way human society has developed has resulted in the majority of individuals not being able to feed themselves for free and, amongst other factors, now needing a credit score to survive!
Nobody has ever been able to feed themselves “for free”. Instead of wandering the Earth spending entire days picking small, underdeveloped plants that are difficult to eat and have little nutrition, now we just do a little work and buy selectively bred food.
Food costs us way less time now than it did in a prehistoric society.
That’s a good point, but it also drives population growth through less famine/starvation, which creates land scarcity, which creates (more) land ownership, which limits or stops individuals being able to forrage for themselves - which is what the meme is referring to. As you say, it’s complicated, but the way human society has developed has resulted in the majority of individuals not being able to feed themselves for free and, amongst other factors, now needing a credit score to survive!
Nobody has ever been able to feed themselves “for free”. Instead of wandering the Earth spending entire days picking small, underdeveloped plants that are difficult to eat and have little nutrition, now we just do a little work and buy selectively bred food.
Food costs us way less time now than it did in a prehistoric society.