• 1 Post
  • 39 Comments
Joined 30 days ago
cake
Cake day: June 4th, 2025

help-circle





  • Gardening as a hobby will end up costing most people more money than they save from eating what they grow. Turns out, farming is a profession for good reason-it’s hard to do well unless you put in a lot of work. One of the under-discussed aspects of the baby boom and its attendant economic boom is that the boomers represented a massive shift from rural communities and agricultural labor to cities and industrial labor or white collar work. As an example, my dad and his five siblings grew up on a farm in Minnesota, and not a single one of them stayed farmers. Every one of them decided life in the city and getting a college degree was better than getting up at 5 to milk cows and collect eggs.