The agrarian society lasted 3,000 years and we could teach processes. I could teach anybody, even people in this room, no offense intended, to be a farmer. It's a process. You dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on top, add water, up comes the corn. You could learn that. Then we had 300 years of the industrial society. You put the piece of metal on the lathe, you turn the crank in the direction of the arrow and you can have a job. And we created a lot of jobs. At one point, 98 percent of the world worked in agriculture, now it's 2 percent in the United States.
Michael BloombergI'm not weighing in on the Democratic field by posting this. Frankly, I don't see any evidence, at least so far, that a single candidate in the race this year of any party knows anything whatsoever about agricutlure. Indeed, it's depressing as everyone of them is an urbanite. Four of this years candidates alone, Sanders, Trump, Steyer and Bloomberg, are New Yorkers from the city, and its been a really long time since New York has given us a candidate that had a personal knowledge of things rural. None of those guys is Theodore Roosevelt.
But this comment is notably insulting. The problem is, it's probably a lot more common of view in the economic elite than we might wish to suppose.
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