Yes, the thing they realize much later in life is that perhaps they enjoyed the act of gardening (curating your tools, workflows, etc) much more than farming (being downright focused and productive on the task at hand).

Sadly gardening doesn’t pay the bills!

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anonzzzies 20 hours ago | parent | next [-]

yep, and I have the same thing, but then I am not going to tell everyone it is super productive for the actual task of farming. I say that I have a hobby farming (which I do) and talk about my tools and my meager yields (which won't make any money if sold). I am not going to say that my workflows are so productive while my neighbour who is a professional farmer just has old crap and just starts and works from 5 am to 9 pm making a living of his land.

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hdjrudni 21 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If I only spend $1000 on hydroponics and 3 weeks tending to a vertical garden I can grow a $1 head of lettuce FOR FREE!

	▲	ben_w 13 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I tried growing lettuce in some cut up plastic bottles at university in soil from the nearby footpath, I think even with the cheap student approach I spent more on the (single pack of) seeds than a fully grown lettuce costs, and only managed about four individual leaves that were only about 1cm by 5cm.
	▲	DANmode 19 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		What if I haven’t spent anything, and I’m making money with lettuce I grew in the woods? (or, in Anthropic/sama’s backyards)

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fc417fc802 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I like farming but a lot of the tools are annoying to use so I find myself tinkering with them (gardening in your analogy I guess). It's not that I prefer tinkering in the shop to farming. More that I just have very little patience for tools that don't conform to the ways in which I think about the world.