On 8/21/2003, Steffen Hentrich wrote:
I believe opportunity costs of ten humans pulling a plow are higher. So it
is useful to employ horses. Which horse is able to teach a children,
except to eat a piece of sugar?
This may be true now, but the question is about subsistence farming, under
which by assumption the opportunity cost of humans is roughly the cost to
feed them.
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