Comment by nradov
7 hours ago
Tell me you've never done any farming without telling me you've never done any farming. There is certainly risk in the business due to market fluctuations, weather, natural disasters, disease, and pests. But the final product is highly deterministic. Almost all genetic variability has been expunged from major food production species in a relentless pursuit of predictable yield. Everything looks and tastes the same. We can debate whether that's a good thing but it is the reality for most farmers.
If it was deterministic, there would be no such thing as blights and other forms of failures. There would be no problem with the bannannas, or coffee or wine grapes. There would be no such thing as a critical few days of the entire year where if anything goes wrong you lose the entire year because it was too humid or too cold or your equipment was out of commission for a week. The bees wouldn't matter at all.
Even when it works, even if you put in a lot of work and experience and understanding, it still just worked by itself and it's just good luck every time.
You have also guessed incorrectly.