Advantages and disadvantages of small-scale peasant economy

Benefits: providing economic basis for ancient rulers to maintain political power; Farmers are barely self-sufficient and their lives are relatively stable; Private land cultivation, farmers' production enthusiasm is higher; It is conducive to the formation of stable social forms and traditional ideology and culture in ancient times.

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Disadvantages: farmers have a hard life and are vulnerable to the natural environment and have great vulnerability; Because of the small scale of production and simple gender division of labor, it is difficult to expand reproduction, which hinders the development of social division of labor and exchange economy; The closed and conservative small-scale peasant economy not only restricted the development of modern science and technology, but also brought many obstacles to the embryonic development of capitalist economy. The small-scale peasant economy relies too much on the natural environment, which intensifies the contradiction between man and land and destroys the ecological environment.