It it what it is. I like the blend of description of the market in conjunction with Tainter's book. I will add to the land idea within the point you make. Plenty of land for all of us humans on this planet once hierarchal agriculture debases the soil enough to no longer be viable. Of course, most habituated to the scheme don't want to do it and they will eat bugs before actually tending a garden, and bugs are just like corn, next to no nutrition, so the suffering before death will continue.
It it what it is. I like the blend of description of the market in conjunction with Tainter's book. I will add to the land idea within the point you make. Plenty of land for all of us humans on this planet once hierarchal agriculture debases the soil enough to no longer be viable. Of course, most habituated to the scheme don't want to do it and they will eat bugs before actually tending a garden, and bugs are just like corn, next to no nutrition, so the suffering before death will continue.