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anticorporateyesterday at 8:24 PM2 repliesview on HN

You can't just use percentages for this kind of thing.

Barring a very good cause that the vast majority of the population can get behind, there will be riots when the bananas and coffee disappear.

We grow enough in our garden that I could probably reach "100%" pretty easily if shit hit the fan, but I'm about tired of eating radish greens right now even that being related to a national crisis.


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phainopepla2yesterday at 8:36 PM

In the case of something like a world war, which is the type of scenario we're talking about here, I think people would begrudgingly accept that bananas and coffee are unavailable or very expensive.

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fwipyesterday at 10:24 PM

I've heard it usually takes at least an acre to grow enough food to feed a single family.

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