1/ I'm well paid as a coder, so my opportunity costs are very high. I COULD make money on some farming stuff, but don't bother.https://twitter.com/Yisro_Reuel/status/885136551801483269 …
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2/ You are perceptive to realize that factory farming turns much of this into a commodity business where the competitor price is WAY low.
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3/ If you want to make money you go for high end luxury goods where much of the value proposition is "local, humane, friendly faces".
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4/ I am convinced I could start a CSA / farm share kinda thing where I sell Christmas geese to folks in Cambridge MA for $100 or $150 each
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5/ Includes a blog w pix of geese frolicking outside, enjoying the pond, etc. Coupons: $10 off your goose when a friend signs up.
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6/ But now you're committing yourself to do a delivery run to the big city on 23 Dec. And you're going to gut and defeather geese.
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7/ I've killed, gutted, defeathered my own chickens and done the same w pigs. It's educational. And HARD DAMNED WORK.
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8/ I bet that with my marketing experience from running a small ecommerce firm for 15 years, I could make it work.
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9/ I bet that within 3 years I could be selling > 100 Christmas geese per year, for a gross of $10-20k. And making ~ $20 per hour.
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10/ I can make a lot more than that coding. So I code.
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11/ HOWEVER I intend to teach my kids these smallbiz and marketing skills. A 16yo making $20/hr as an entrepreneur is nothing to sneeze at
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12/ ...and doing that TEACHING can make me a lot of money. How? But obviating the need / expense of sending them to college.
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