Lets start with the obvious, you do not own a farm.
You don't know what he owns. In my case, I do own a farm. A small one.
You may live in a rural area, because you cannot afford to live in a better place, but that does not make you a farmer.
Who the hell are YOU to define anything but a rural area 'a better place'? Fuck the city. You can have it. You can have the gangs, the homeless camps, the crime, the filth, the onerous taxes and regulations, the daily commute, the traffic jams, the high rent and cost of living, nowhere to park without paying through the nose for it, few trees, little wildlife except for roaches, rats, pigeons, stray dogs and cats, and crows. I'll stay out in the rural area you so despise. I have deer, swallows, finches of many types, fresh air, a place to park all my vehicles and equipment, the morning sounds of cows and chickens, a nearby river to fish in (nothing like fresh trout!), crops that I can eat as well as sell, independent power if the lines fail, trees everywhere (they're in bloom!), a place to fire my guns to sight them in or just for fun, room enough to hunt on my own land, and me and my neighbors are our own security. Police are far away. We do security ourselves. I would rather have it that way. You know not that which you despise.
Farming is about 1% of the world's economy.
About 5.2% according to the USDA (at least for America). Other countries are agriculture based. This percentage is much higher.
That means there is plenty of money (and production) to buy food.
No, it doesn't. The sheer number of acres used for farming and the automated methods used now is why food is cheap. They practically give bread away. Why? Millions of acres of wheat, massive combine harvesters and other heavy equipment, and huge tractors to till, furrow, and seed fields. Massive trucks to haul product to huge mills that turn wheat to flour, and rails, trucks and a distribution system to get all that to the bakeries and your local grocery store.
If one farmer stops producing, then we buy from other farmers.
A water park requires maybe ten acres or so. This is nothing compared to the millions of acres that are farmed.
If all American farmers stop producing, then we find other farmers in other countries to buy food from.
No, you would starve. So would much of the world. I don't think you realize just how much food we ship around the world as well as to your local grocery store. There are literally trainloads of wheat and other products heading to ports going overseas DAILY.
If they do not have the technology to produce enough food, we invest the technology into them buying food.
It's not about technology. It's about favorable growing conditions and soil. Sure, seeds have been developed to allow more crops to be planted in poor soils and arid conditions, but these are being blocked by people like YOU. Don't forget the effects of war either. I don't think you understand how many famines still occur in the world today. You sit there in America on your fat ass typing on your computer and show your arrogance and ignorance.
Food (from farmers) is such a tiny part of my family's budget that I doubt I would even notice if the price doubled.
So you don't think a family that spends some $150 a week on food wouldn't notice that going to $300? Go stand in a major grocery store and watch what people are spending on food. Oh...and food shortages would occur as well. Foods would not be available at ANY price.
Farmers would darn well notice if the price halved.
Yes they would. They might even turn to planting a different crop.
As for having a farm near a city, and using it as a farm...
City land is worth hundreds or thousands of times as much as farmland.
Land is worth what someone is willing to pay for it, whether it's a farm, water park, business park, or anything else.
It would be crazy to not turn it into a water park, industrial facility, research facility, or whatever.
Why? Who are YOU to decide what someone wants to do with their land?
There is more than enough farmland out in the middle of nowhere.
Define 'middle of nowhere'.
It is more efficient to have people more densely living in one area, and to have farmers out in rural areas.
Reversal fallacy. Efficiency is no factor here.
I worry about the Alt Right
Buzzword fallacy.
and their fantasies of importance.
Inversion fallacy.
Farming and ranching is a job. We MAKE our own jobs.
they would not have to live in fantasy worlds.
No, that would be YOU.
No city can house or water or clothe or feed or warm it's inhabitants without continuous supplies from outside. Cut any of these off and the cities quickly become a trap and what little civilization you do have breaks down. Those supplies come from the rural area you so despise. Be careful who you cross.
If farmers and other rural workers cut you off completely:
No food. No water. No lights. No gasoline. No wool. No cotton. No plastics. No air conditioning. No heat. No paper. No industry (they require supplies too!). No tents for the homeless. Not even heroin or pot.
You get to sit in the dark and gaze at your own navels.
