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  • I never understood the economics of those Agtech.

    The margins on vegetables are shit.

    Consumers won’t care that each of your potatoes had it’s own email addresse, a twitter account and was monitored by an AI.

    Farmers are not just redneck assholes who needed some MIT grad to tell them how to increase yield, there’s already a huge agro industry and research and we’ve reached a point where the yield of carrots and others is pretty much already maximised. Assuming they are genius and get a 1% yield improvement that would be enormous.

    A farm hand cost $25k a year, and engineer cost $150k and you haven’t priced in the tech and the building…

    So you basically get a business where the cost of operation is about 20 time higher (and that’s conservative) than a guy with a plot of land and a tractor for sensibly the same yield (if not worse) and zero product differentiation in the market.

    Well, I guess they just figured out the economics…