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[–] [email protected] 156 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

Mr green text has no idea what he's talking about.

I grew up on a farm you're telling me that was an idyllic life?

Farmwork is stupidly long days in awful weather, it's either hot, or freezing cold, or raining, or snowing. The pay is effectively abysmal and makes you wish you worked in Starbucks on minimum wage because that would be an improvement. You have all this necessary equipment you've had to "buy", which despite costing more than most houses is about as reliable as a Soviet era tank.

And that's just growing props if you're mad enough to also raise cattle then it's even worse because you've got all them to deal with and sheep in particular are more suicidal than a depressed lemming.

But hey, you get a nice view.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Well, at least a soviet tank can be repaired with a hammer, unlike a deere

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Soviet equipment is much more repairable than any of the modern crap we have nowadays which is designed to be used and tossed in a relatively short timeframe.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Thick enough wood log works too

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a reason the kids aren't taking over the farm. Not to mention that a 50 acre returned soldier lot can't provide for a family of six anymore.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Well it isn't subsistence farming by any stretch of the imagination it's full on industrial farming.

Most farms these days, at least crop farms, grow only two or three different crops. Mostly dictated by what will fetch the best price and what is currently being subsidised by the government. Often times you will find that farms are not growing any food stuffs at all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I grew up next to a farm. They stopped growing produce because the government regulations got to be crazy. They just grow soy beans and hay now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can they not poison the water supply anymore or were there too many strings attached to get their subsidies?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You know nothing about them.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Wait, you got paid? I just got grabbed by the neighbor whenever he needed another hand

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I currently work at a farm and it is fucking hard work for $15 an hour. The only reason I stay is because family friends own it and I need money for college. At least I don't have to deal with sheep lmao.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

is about as reliable as a Soviet era tank.

Are you praising farming equipment or saying Soviet era tanks are unreliable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Almost certainly the latter, though im sure some soviet era tank specialist nerd will write up a 'bhut achthually ...' 5 paragraph essay on how soviet tanks were the best of the best and could be repaired with twigs and mud

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Is green text talking about the specific character in the picture?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You are currently depressed lemming