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Inventors Revolutionize Beekeeping
wombatmobile writes For more than 5,000 years, apiarists donned protective suits and lit bundles of grass to subdue swarms of angry bees while they robbed their hives of precious, golden honey. Now two Australian inventors have made harvesting honey as easy as turning a tap — literally. Cedar Anderson and his father Stuart have just been rewarded for a decades worth of inventing and refining with a $2 million overnight success on Indiegogo. Their Flow Hive coopts bees to produce honey in plastic cells that can be drained and restored by turning a handle, leaving the bees in situ and freeing apiarists from hours of smoke filled danger time every day.
And lazy is inherently bad, why exactly? I'd bet it's great for the bees as they aren't wasting precious energy making wax. (It takes several times the weight of honey to produce an equivalent measure of wax.) And just because these cells have honey in them doesn't mean the bees aren't keeping honey elsewhere in the hive.
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Sorry, but what? Pretty much every technological advance we've ever made has been about someone being lazy.
So, tell you what, stop using the wheel, the lever, an engine, electricity, refrigeration, or pretty much anything which takes the work out for you.
Stop being such a lazy bastard and ignore all modern progress which reduces your labor.
Otherwise you're full of crap.
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Is the average middle-class person "working less hard" than 50 years ago? Not at all.
Have you been on social media websites during the work day?
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Beekeeping is not a typical endeavour easily analysed by simple economic theories, The large scale farms that produce most of the world's honey are already using low cost, well-trained labour and will never take up a hobby item like this. Anyone who keeps a few hives does not do it for efficiency of production, they do it for the wonderful connection between human and bee, Bees are such good insects they are practically honorary mammals. There is a peace and a joy to be had by caring for and gently harvesting a modest proportion of the harvest of these amazing and beautiful little creatures.