was listening to a description of how selective breeding has transformed corn into an industrial crop and got emotional, like legit weepy, cause the idea of humanity fighting the eternal scourge of famine through an ingenuity that can unlock the potential of the natural world is so beautiful

imagine that capacity, collectively directed by workers who control and direct all production... from each according to her ability, to each according to her need...

one of my favorite chapters in The Grapes of Wrath--the chapter where he drops the title actually--is about the astonishing abundance humanity can cultivate from nature, and the moral horror of the capitalists destroying that abundance, because only through enforced famine can they ensure profit https://read-one-other-book.pinecast.co/episode/07ac0374/the-grapes-of-wrath-title-drop-
1.8: The Grapes of Wrath: Title Drop.

Chapter 23-25

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