Varewulf

I Am A Delight

Old queer trans woman from Norway. Mainly post in English. I write stuff sometimes. Expect bad jokes. Girls and cats are nice.


NireBryce
@NireBryce

the farmers you hear about -- in the news, in economic/politics, if they're farmers and not pickers or farmhands, are millionaires.

If not in liquid, in assets. That's the only way to really make reasonably positive money farming, enough to keep one going, rn. Unless you want to subsistence farm, which means giving up a lot of your luxuries and even then probably having issues.

I wish less people saw it as an out, if only because I'd prefer less farm animals have a shit time of it.

at least do the math. for their sake.

go if you must, but do it with open eyes.


alyaza
@alyaza
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shel
@shel

In the US in particular there is this fantasy of homesteaders who just went to some random ahem "unoccupied" land just minecraft-style chopped down some trees and built a house and started a farm that they lived off of.

But that shit never actually happened. All of the homesteaders settling the Louisiana Purchase and beyond were heavily subsidized by the federal government. It was a government program to promote white ownership of newly conquered territory stolen from indigenous nations that were being actively genocided. Nobody was actually able to sustainbly live as a self-sufficient homesteader it just did not happen.


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in reply to @alyaza's post:

I really wish there was a way to get people to watch some of the right-wing "homesteader" genre of youtuber (bearded men with $50,000 trucks and brand-new tractors mostly removing stumps from their yards, uncanny women rearing children named Bradley) to inoculate them against the cottage-core RETVRN TO DIRT leftist strain of the same meme.