nobody has farm experience here?

I refuse to read this article but the growing strategies between rice and wheat are drastically different. Wheat fields can be plowed and direct seeded and basically left to grow by one person. the harvest of course brings the community together. Rice is more complicated, beds need to be tilled but also bermed in order to flood. rice is traditionally started as a seedling then transplanted into a flooded field, which requires a ton of manual labor. the harvest takes about the same collective energy as wheat.

so it seems rice growing is a more communinized process than wheat, yet I’d say individualism was built on elite intelligentsia creating asocial conditions they called ‘enlightenment’ and dictated this stance until it became unashamed liberalism. you can see how the erasure of the peasant commons, the collective farms of Europe, gave way to alienation oops I mean individualism