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To: Joe NYC who wrote (108780)	5/1/2000 11:18:00 AM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1576392

f you go far enough, you will find your ancestors who were farmers, sold out and went after other opportunities. Most have done very well, much better than if they stayed on the farm. Very good point Joe. Any time technology and orginization cause less people to be required to preform a particular job, there is some suffering involved for those who have to change. However if we decided to intervene with laws, regulations and subsides to prevent that change then people as a whole will be worse off. Since America can grow all the food it needs (plus a lot for export) with less then 3% of its population working on farms or raising livestock, that leaves 97+% available to make other things. If we worked so hard to "protect the small farmer" that the percentage framing was the same as it was in the 1800's then our country would be far poorer and people would have much less oportunity then they do now. Without the "creative distruction" of such changes we would not even be farmers (after all it was once a new thing). Those of us that we here (and there would be far fewer of us, would be primitive hunter/gatherers. Tim