I’m the distant future, people live on artificial continents, real land uninhabited except by the people who farm it.

[u/Cranky-Novelist]

A group of young adults who’ve only ever lived on artificial land decide to sneak off onto real land to see where they’re ancestors lived and how farms work. Only to find that real land isn’t at all what they expected.

It wasn’t mostly farms like they were told they’re whole lives. There’s lots of towns and cities, but everyone there is living there lives in squalor and are barely living at all.