I'm currently thinking that wife and I turn turtle and stop leaving the farm almost entirely in about two weeks. Aside from utilities like electric and internet, we need almost nothing from outside, and what we do can be delivered by UPS.https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1229771628839608330 …
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10/ ...and then to maintain the tractor I need spare filters, filter wrenches, grease gun, case of grease, spare air filters, heat gun to melt out diesel wax on cold morning, tire irons, MIG welder (bucket wears and cracks), spare rolls of MIG wire, spare tank of Argon/CO2 gas
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11/ and to get the hay in I need the sidecut mower, tedder, side rake, baler, and then I need spare rolls of twine for the baler, plus WD-40 to tweak the knotting arms, and ... And to store all of this I need space and cover. I can barely handle the infrastructure pyramid now
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12/ And when someone proposes jacking the whole pyramid up 20 feet and adding two new floors underneath, the surface area that the pyramid covers grows by 2x or 4x, and the annual labor by the same amount. "Grow your own biodiesel" is INSANELY hard.
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