Quote Originally Posted by baudib View Post

1. you lose your farm
Who cares if I lose my farm I'm a greedy asshole.

2. efficiency increases (theoretically) but fewer people have jobs.
Efficieny increases yes (I don't get how this is a theory... if I can spend less to do the same thats textbook efficiency increase). If you're saying fewer people have jobs in the tomato industry becuase of this, you would be right. I hope you're not saying that people in the US would have less jobs overall because that's total nonsense.

I suppose more people getting cheaper, perhaps better tomatoes is a possible
(although not certain) result as well
So we should protect my farm so people get shittier, more expensive tomatoes?
The fact that you think having a free tomato cloning iphone app would be a "problem" shows an incredible lack of understanding of basic economics.