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Yes, which is why the smart way to do it would be to allow it but make sure it brings in plenty of tax revenue.

(Farms don’t employ many people either.)

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> (Farms don’t employ many people either.)

I can't eat the output of a data center, though.

You don’t eat the output of most US farms either unless you subsist on field corn, soybeans, and hay.

I do, however, eat the things that eat those. Or byproducts (milk, cheese, etc) from them.

The point is that something tangible is produced.

Ooo, this is exciting, I so rarely get to be the random dumbass crawling out of the woodwork to provide a statistically-unlikely counterexample to an otherwise sound point!

I've been really enjoying eating soybeans. Absurdly good source of protein (yes, even for a bean), dirt cheap, decent source of fiber and a bunch of minerals, and pretty easy to just drop in a pressure cooker and eat however you like once it comes out.

Can't say I eat a lot of field corn or hay though.

Field corn is made into chips and tortillas, not to mention also processed into corn syrup. Cornbread, polenta...

Hay is the stalk of a grain plant. We take the grain off the stalk and make it into flour. A main ingredient in bread and pasta/noodle.

Youre eating alfalfa that gets shipped to china and the middle east?

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