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by sleightofmind
1405 days ago
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An aside about the dream of farming. I'd always heard it subtly implied that my maternal grandfather, born 1899, and early on, a farmer in Minnesota, was not much of a farmer, because, ultimately, after 30 years or so of farming, he gave up and moved to California, and took a job in town. What I did not realize, and subsequently caused me to regard his farming skills with greater generosity, was that during the first fifty years of his life, the percentage of people working on farms went from 20% of the US population to 2%! So, even if one were a good farmer, there was still a very real chance of getting squeezed out. |
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I'd never succeed at it, although nowadays, I'd hire a farm manager. That guy might keep it afloat, but then I wouldn't make any money off it because I'd be paying him.