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[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Seems history shows innovations came from many individual sources but those Factory Farms weren't a thing. Corporations did help develop ideas into products but large scale Monsanto style factory farms weren't a thing during the time combine harvesters were being invented.

It seems quite the opposite: the efficiency of the combine harvesters made factory farms much more likely.

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think you might have missed the point of my story.

Farmers were the engineers designing these things. Because that's all the kind of farmers there was.

Now we have Factory Factory farms, but there are still some small farmers doing this stuff. We don't have many true farmer/engineers left. And it's bad for all of us.

[–] And009@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 1 day ago

It'll circle back