1903, W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk, I. Of Our Spiritual Strivings,
Why did God make me an outcast and a stranger in mine own house? The shades of the prison-house closed round about us all: walls strait and stubborn to the whitest, but relentlessly narrow, tall, and unscalable to sons of night who must plod darkly on in resignation, or beat unavailing palms against the stone, or steadily, half hopelessly, watch the streak of blue above.

The idea has its detractors. Skeptics argue the whole idea is unscalable, and that large vertical farms would be insatiable consumers of energy to keep the plants lit, healthy, and harvested […]

The result is a marketplace where low-revenue companies (say zero to $2 million per annum) are attracting valuations in the tens of millions of dollars and raising too much money. Most of these businesses will turn out to be poorly run, not special, unscalable, and will not deliver negative returns.

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