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It’s not fully that simple. A lot of food plants were artificially created through selective breeding in the distant past. A lot of the reason the world is even able to sustain the level of agriculture that it currently does is through the desperate application of research and massive effort to keep it going, to make sure everyone gets fed.
I mean it’s not wrong, the same people giving you the credit score aren’t doing a damn thing to keep any of that going and in fact are actively working against the people who do keep it going. But the cushy type of agriculturally supported life we get to enjoy was a product of bigger scale organization and massive day-to-day effort, it wasn’t a casualty of it.
It really is amazing how far crop yields have come in the last century or two. Up 44% per acre since the 50's. The Green Revolution
Even lemons aren't real. All my life I've feared life giving me something that is just an artificially bred monstrosity.
Hey, did you know lemons and oranges are basically the same thing, just one has the left-handed version of the flavor molecule and one has the right-handed?
It's not true. They just have totally different compositions of a variety of the same family of chemicals, and lemons have many times over more acid in them which is what makes them sour. But some people think it, and it would be super cool if it was true.
I'm a flavor chemistry nerd and you had me up to REEEEEE levels in the first half ngl
When life gives you lemons, call it Sinister and start an urban myth.
I feel some whiplash from your comment
A horrific example: Fritz Haber
He simultaneously created humanity's ability to sustain life and destroy it
That's a good point, but it also drives population growth through less famine/starvation, which creates land scarcity, which creates (more) land ownership, which limits or stops individuals being able to forrage for themselves - which is what the meme is referring to. As you say, it's complicated, but the way human society has developed has resulted in the majority of individuals not being able to feed themselves for free and, amongst other factors, now needing a credit score to survive!
Nobody has ever been able to feed themselves "for free". Instead of wandering the Earth spending entire days picking small, underdeveloped plants that are difficult to eat and have little nutrition, now we just do a little work and buy selectively bred food.
Food costs us way less time now than it did in a prehistoric society.