Instead, the most sensible thing would be for neighbors to combine efforts to produce as much food as possible, and thus aggregated towns were a sensible arrangement.
Midvale's employees grumbled about the strict new regime, claiming that it turned them into little more than automatons, but the factory's productivity soared.
Apart from this, being able to give up labor-intensive grain production freed both the land and the workforce for more productive agricultural divisions.
And the new technologies are widening the production base all the time, weakening the strategic importance of conventional reserves and the power of those who hold them.
And supply is tightening. Monsoons and bad weather last year damaged sugar crops in India and Mexico; and the largest sugar exporter, Brazil, now USES half the sugar it produces to make ethanol.
A United Nations report says reaching that goal will require major increases in intensive, high-efficiency livestock operations for both meat and dairy production.
They also argued that measures of productivity ignore what would have happened without investments in IT—productivity gains might have been even lower.