Comment on Being poor is expensive

Gentryfried@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  A working horse; one who is trained to pull a plow, costs a minimum of $3,000.00 in the USA today. Also, there’s no such thing as ‘wilderness.’ There’s plenty of uncultivated land, but it’s all owned by the government or private interests who would be averse to you showing up and planting crops.

  I suggest you go to the local library and get access to the interwebs, so you can check the facts before you start making silly suggestions.

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  • floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Just get a small loan of a few million from your parents. Honestly, why don’t more of the poor think of this?

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  • Dookieman12@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Facts and nuance don’t mean anything when you’re an angry little teenaged shit on the internet.

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• Doom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  So destroy more forest to grow food for one person? May I suggest an alternative. We protect the little forest that remains and instead relax zoning laws to allow people to grow food on the countless acres of grassy yard space/land we already have. Grass is an outdated non native crop originally grown by rich assholes as a staus symbol to say “I have so much I do not need to use my land for anything productive.”

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  • RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You don’t have to tear down a forest to grow food. There are far more options out there for growing food than conventional modern farming.

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  • Gentryfried@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Slave mindset

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• NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  If you believe it’s that simple, you should look into it.

  The biggest problems are water access and soil quality. Generally speaking, all of the land that is good for farming is not wilderness, it’s aldeady owned and in use by somebody. If you have to spend money to irrigate and more money to make the soil into something that can grow food, you’ll be broke long before you’re self-sustaining.

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  • lyrial@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    And, spoiler alert; even if you manage to get kand with water access, you are going to go through hell to get the rights to use that water in any meaningful way. Try something as simple as rain water collection with mout the rights? Best case is a massive fine.

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