The carrying capacity of farmland is determined by crop "failure" years. At any time you have more population than can be comfortably fed during a "famine" year, it is excess population, guaranteed to die one way or another.
The correct economic response to a windfall, such as reaping more than "failure" levels, is to save it. All the extra grain should be taxed and held in silos. Or perhaps sold to other countries, who will waste it on doomed children, making themselves poorer in exchange for stuffing your coffers.
"But that creates hunger" and not doing it also creates hunger, what's your point.
Humans clearly think they are entitled to an average yield. Indeed usually mortals think they're entitled to bumper years. Plan to get the high score every year, instead of the minimum, which is the only reasonably repeatable and reliable quantity.
Human sacrifice to end a famine? Yeah, if you sacrifice all the excess lives, they won't need to eat, now will they?
Famine is Nature being [[usurious]]. The nation takes out a loan it can't afford, but Nature can't be thrown down the well.
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This is what the Jews were trying to say in the Torah bug made it too strictly numerical. Joseph saved the 7 years of plenty up for 7 years of famine. So the Torah demands the land be left entirely falliq every 7th year. But the famine year is not logically going to occue accorsibg to such a strict schedule. So they failed.
Bunch of alleged scholars just got their ass thrashed by a guy who can't even use a spellchecker.
Cue midwit meme? Just smart enough to convince themselves they believe in sheer insanity?
this sounds like it explains israel too. even within the bible let alone historically.
"deliver us to the promised land" what's wrong with the land of egypt? nothing. the problem of egypt was they were slaves or whatever to the pharaoh. "let my people go": exit. good. to where? well, anywhere else, really. "the promised land" as a geographical location doesn't exist. this would also fit as an elegantly simple explanation to why they wandered the desert for forty years.
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