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[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I live in a place that is full of billionaires and multimillionaires. It isn't rare to find someone happily running a coffee shop or bakery or micro-brewery, artisan art gallery, etc because it was always their dream. A dream they could only pursue after they felt rich enough to know that they could do so without risking their well being. In its own way, it is very very sad. You have to buy the privilege to follow your dreams.

[–] AbouBenAdhem 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

My city is full of shops and restaurants run by people who worked corporate jobs for decades while saving up to open their dream shop. The commercial landlords have realized this, and raised rents to the point where profitable businesses are a financial impossibility—they just aim to drain their tenants’ life savings as quickly as possible while they line up the next hopefuls. The city is full of amazing shops and restaurants, but they have a turnover time in months.

Goat herding, on the other hand, is much less susceptible to commercial rent inflation.

[–] SpaceNoodle 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You say that, but you still need land on which to herd the goats.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Read Marx, everyone! Workers of the world, unite!

[–] Jumi 1 points 1 week ago

I recommend Mongolia

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Having owned a small business like that, I wouldn't do it unless I was independently wealthy. The stress isn't worth it, especially in a remote place without much foot traffic.

[–] SpaceNoodle -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maybe open a business where the customers are

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod 12 points 1 week ago

Yes but then you have to live near people, the most dangerous animal on the planet

[–] mynameisigglepiggle 2 points 1 week ago

Ok, I'm not that rich. But I did start a distillery once I paid off the house. It's doing well but I needed to do something tangible instead of being strapped to a computer.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod 40 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Where do you see yourself in five years?

This is me, but I'd have pigs instead of cows

[–] TheMinions 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I want bees, some chickens, a couple goats, and some Berkshire pigs.

If someone who can grow plants is with me then also a garden, but I don't do plants well.

[–] grue 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I want a workshop in a forest.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I was thinking about building and selling furniture but I've been convinced society doesn't deserve the effort. You're all a bunch of litigious fuckbags, I wouldn't build the crust on a cumsock for any of you.

[–] SpaceNoodle 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Goats for me.

Goats are delicious.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod 3 points 1 week ago

I'd have a couple goats to clear brush

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I did not need this to hit so hard right now. Time to start a new therapeutic rye sourdough.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't want to be a goat farmer, I want to live under socialism. I want to be interested in what I work on.

The whole working gang is interested in production

I want to live in a country that cares for each other and the work they do.

It is a mood in which a newly literate servant girl will hail the rain running into her leaky shoes if that rain means harvest. Harvest somewhere far off on farms she never sees.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

100%. The desire to regress to a simpler mode of life sprouts from petty bourgeois ideology, when the real answer is progression beyond the decay of Capitalism so we can continue progressing onwards. Great comment, comrade 🫡

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

s/goat/potato/

Delightful though goats undoubtedly are, potatoes don't typically try to escape or eat the scenery.