14/ People aren't hungry enough. Why, my farm hand was out last week -on "vacation". My goodness, I hope I'm someday so rich that I can afford to forego a week of wages in order to take the sort of "vacation" that the upper classes like his sort do!
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15/ Oh, really? I thought I was! In 20 years of hiring people I never really once sat down and thought about supply and demand. Good insight! https://twitter.com/sausage1esq/status/1155894072730685441 …
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16/ no, thought about a zero-turn, went w conventional instead bc I have lots of tasks that require towable riding mower implements (dump trailers, lawn sweepers, fertilizer spreaders, etc etc etc etc) https://twitter.com/teachbarefoot/status/1155894473202814976 …
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17/ It wasn't a family vacation. It wasn't $10/hr. Otherwise, good argument. https://twitter.com/HitorMissDSA/status/1155894889890099200 …
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18/ I pay $12/hr, which is 50%-100% higher than prevailing summer job wages around here (I know because I researched this by asking local business and employees).
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19/ Perhaps your experience of employing farm labor trumps my own, "college reactionary". But from the local farmers I've talked to, hourly wages are the norm. https://twitter.com/BorgiaKing/status/1155897101315989504 …
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Replying to @MorlockP
Also, A FARM IS TOTALLY A FACTORY. At least, a good farm is. It is a factory for turning sunlight, water, and organic inputs into FOOD. (And to a lesser extent, raw feedstocks for textiles, biochem, etc.) It's mankind's oldest form of factory and our most successful one, ever.
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There is absolutely nothing wrong with "hobby" farms where people raise a few goats or some strawberries to sell at the farmer's market or whatever. Good on you for getting your hands dirty. It's just a shame we use the same word to describe them that we use for actual farms.
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(That was a rhetorical you: I don't know if your farm is a hobby farm or a "real" farm - the distinction is blurry at times anyway. No offense meant to anyone on either side of the very broad line.)
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I'm not saying this very well. My apologies. My point is, if you want to grow stuff/raise animals, that's fine, enjoy, it's a worthwhile thing to do. But thinking of that kind of farm as the same thing as a "food factory" farm causes problems for people who aren't familiar.
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yep, I agree w you entire thread re my particular farm: it's serious hobby farm. We get almost all of our meat from it, I do all the butchering, we have a vineyard and make wine, etc.
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