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[–] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've lived in a subsistence farming community. You know who doesn't glorify and romanticize it? Farmers.

Don't get me wrong, hobby farming often is the best of both worlds, and smallholder farming and gardening fucking make life 20,000 times better. But making the jump to letting your whole life depend on rainfall just to eat is madness.

We as a species have 50 centuries of receipts to tell us that subsistence farmers eventually lose the game in a long enough time line. It only takes 1 season for that to ruin lives and communities.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    i mean the food is better when you picked it that morning. but like, i can pay someone else to pick it that morning.

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