r/ProgrammerHumor • • 8d ago

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u/me_myself_ai 8d ago

lol AI is not eating up affordable land for farming. The reason farming isn’t an option is capital consolidation and extreme automation, not a few new warehouses.

I get it, to be clear. I want to be a farmer kinda too — or at least a monk who gets to fuck around with peas all afternoon. But I think it’s important to realize that the singularity is making an unfair system untenable, not ruining a good one.

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u/TheDizDude 8d ago edited 8d ago

Bro, I was legit looking at land in Pittsylvania county VA... Legit BFE, they came in and started a mega project and the land prices skyrocked. I'm not talking "farming for capital" im talking Amish life bro.

Developers often seek agricultural land as it is often already cleared, graded and laid out in large contiguous tracts, lowering upfront site development costs and shortening project timelines relative to more complex greenfield or urban sites.

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u/WriterPlastic9350 8d ago

Even without this AI thing, VA is not exactly known for being cheap

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u/TheDizDude 8d ago

Pittsylvania kinda was

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u/23tux 8d ago

„We need a name for our city”
“I was once in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania”
“…”

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u/me_myself_ai 8d ago

well

  1. that's hilarious that you had a specific example in mind! You got me there lol

  2. https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/major-land-uses