Thanks a lot for painting this story.
For me this is a too romantic view on ideals of the past. When someone likes gardening I wish them fun to do so at the scale they like to do it.
But I also see real advantages in the economy where people can professionalise in other segments. I really think, that the complexity of our society makes it harder to understand the sense behind it sometimes. But it also lavereges our common wealth a lot.
And I would say it is really objectively more efficient when there is a farmer that buys expensive machines and works on farming the whole week to produce food formany people instead of everyone gardening their food.
It allows higher quality at lower prices in the end.
I think what the USA is not so strong in is regulation. And this can be good in some parts of the economy. But in other parts we have to accept, that the natural incentives are not support a sustainable society.
From our genetics we are programmed to eat sugar intensive, because most parts of earth history starving to death was one of the biggest threats to life. Now suddenly it is no problem at all for many people in this world.
This is a great message. The new problem is overeating. But this needs discipline and a society that supports us.
Addictions are problematic in most cases, when they gain control over our decision process. So it is a similar problem with sugars, as it is with smoking, alcohol and cocain. We need to use our brain and let it take part in our decision making.
And as a society we can decide to prohibit products or prohibit commercials about some products, because their addiction is problematic on an individual and a society level.