Monthly Archives: September 2009

Cost Of Machines vs Cost Of People

By Dragos ILINCA | Published: September 3, 2009

Why the growing imbalance between the cost of people and the cost of machines? What prices are going up the fastest? Health care — the cost of maintaining human beings. What prices are going down the fastest? The cost of information and machines. What, really, is health-care reform? Human beings are being cared for by [...]

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Challenging Assumptions: Tractor vs Horse

By Dragos ILINCA | Published: September 3, 2009

Taking into account the annual feeds for work horses (1,300 kg of corn grain, 1,600 kg of alfalfa and 500 kg of harvested roughage) and the national yields for these crops during the past decade, they conclude that the 23 million horses would require 9 million hectare of agricultural land for food, or 6 percent [...]