> get a pot of land and grow your own food

Rejecting industrialized society is actually very expensive

5701652400 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

"industrialized society" just rejected 160,000 sofware engineers this year. other industries are no better. you are either wage-slave barely making it. or getting laid off, as those people are not needed.

	▲	Our_Benefactors 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There were layoffs yes. The solution is to pursue something that on a small scale is net negative financially? Get out of here.

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mschuster91 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Artisanal food for hipsters is always going to be a market. People are willing to pay a premium for locally or regionally grown produce, fruit, eggs and meat.

However, it's a risky business so I'd only recommend getting started if you either (!) are FIRE already even after sinking 3 million bucks into purchasing land and machinery as well as constructing all the buildings or if you join a cooperative/union or if you got experienced farmers in your family.

Everything else - especially following "prepper" influencers shilling books and holding more public speeches to shill for said books than they are actually working on their farm - is a recipe for certain disaster.

If in doubt... first try raising a few dozen chickens in your yard as a starting point.

	▲	rightbyte 36 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> If in doubt... first try raising a few dozen chickens in your yard as a starting point. No. Just try to make a 5x8 plot to grow vegetables and realise how ridiculously hard it is.