21/ also, I believe that there's a dating website for rural folks http://farmersonly.com no idea what the selection is like, though
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22/ hey, dude, my pleasure also, if you've got all that - wife, house, kids- you're doing GREAThttps://twitter.com/Face_Almighty44/status/1254847981162987521 …
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𝔻𝕦𝕩 𝔹𝕖𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕣𝕦𝕞 @Face_Almighty44Morlock, it means a hell of a lot to hear you say this. I often feel like I wasted my 20s. Even though my path was not all my fault. Acceleration remains constant. I have a house, wife, and 2 kids. And a career?! Not a lot of capital. But - acceleration! To the stars! https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1254844585836240900 …1 reply 0 retweets 16 likesShow this thread -
23/ Can't emphasize enough the capital accumulation aspect. Homesteading is capital intensive. Farming - if you're born into it, have the land already, learned the skills at dad's knee - is a cut throat low margin enterprise. You are a "price taker" not a "price setter".
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24/ and you are competing with people who have a lot of skill eeking out a living with marginal equipment, and with all the advantages of a local friend network, local reputation, local market knowledge. You can't move out here and, I dunno, start logging in competition w real
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25/ ...loggers, and hope to use the profits ("profits") from that to bootstrap the homestead. Likewise raising corn, raising beef, etc I'm not saying that you can't get some cash flow from those activities, but that's after they're up and running with a heavy capital injection
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26/ ...and that cash flow is more going to subsidize your money-losing lifestyle (which you adopt for reasons like anti-fragility / prepping, creating a lifestyle for your children, etc.) than it is going to be a positive income stream.
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27/ So, again, my advice: establish your career in the city or burbs. Become a coder. Become an electrician. A graphic designer. A welder. THEN move that career to the country, and either work remotely, or ply your trade, if it's a TRADE trade (e.g. welding, etc) locally
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28/ OK, I've answered all the questions that OP threw at me via DM. Any other questions before I wrap up the thread and get back to writing my
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29/ fascinating !https://twitter.com/ngvrnd/status/1254849900422012928 …
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nzc @ngvrndReplying to @MorlockPthere’s a podcast called “farm to taber” where in one episode she makes the point that family farms have never been a good bet and there were factory farms more or less all the way back to Roman times. here tis: https://www.farmtotaber.com/episodes/2018/6/1/grappling-with-our-ghosts-the-american-farm-legacy …2 replies 1 retweet 13 likesShow this thread -
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yeah dude you should check it out you’ll love it it brings the pain
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