Can Farming Solve Detroit’s Postindustrial Blues?
Web Publication: Vice, by Mark Sundeen
A better question for this article presented by Mark Sundeen might be: Can Farming Solve America’s Post-Robotized Blues? While this is essentially a feel good story about down and out Detroit with unique conditions regarding land, property values, social and economic destruction, and a long list of other specifics we should hope to avoid, it is still a harbinger of things to come.
When transportation, warehouse, service work, and other industries no longer need humans in about ten years, maybe someone will thank Mark or me for planting these thoughts in the back of your mind now.
Agricultural subsistence is not the economy we should necessarily aspire to but creating new micro-economies will be an absolute necessity when unemployment spikes into the hundreds of millions due to automation. Certainly, its just a baby step, but not a bad place to start as we all need to eat.
