A small productivity boost of 12,000%, and also it doesn’t shatter anymore
by MetallicaDash
A small productivity boost of 12,000%, and also it doesn’t shatter anymore
by MetallicaDash
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Man, some meme maker doesn’t understand the law of diminishing returns.
Let’s say you start running. Your first week it takes 20 minutes to run a mile. By your second week it takes 10 minutes. I suppose your think the 3rd week should be 5 minutes, and the 4th week should be 2.5 minutes.
If you have been running for 5 years, intense training and your time to run a mile dropped by .2 seconds in 1 month you’d be ecstatic.
Over thousands or hundreds of years and the law of diminishing returns, what we have is already extremly productive so pushing it even a little further is difficult
What our ancient forbears were able to do to selectively breed crops and develop farming pratice to increase yields is nothing short of miraculous. In fact, I’d argue that was the real innovation that really set us apart from the animals, even more than fire.
It took decades to centuries to millenia.
In the 20th century, there was the green revolution, the most famous contributor being Normal Borlaug. Crop yields exploded exponentially in a few decades over what 10,000 years of previous selective agriculture were able to produce.
The fact it doesn’t shatter is easier than you think. If you found a large patch of wild rye, even today, you’d find a few that didn’t shatter. I don’t know about teosinte, but the non shattering thing is going to repeatedly crop up in nature.