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First, "hispter thing" doesn't mean a thing. And for the profitability, it may improve through time, so this kind of farms should be not discarded. Electric car

• chillingeffect 10y ago
  Yes, "hipster thing" does mean something: It means an experimental, short-term foray into something very few people are doing and which is currently non-sensical or unprofitable and whose near-term potential is unknown. That experimental willingness for a small group to take something on without knowing always been a feature of humanity and the essence of the hacker spirit. If one wishes to abstain from any such trend, it's certainly their prerogative to dismiss it simply as a "hipster thing." There is little need for than a few rare people to try it out. This doesn't mean that anything "hipster" should ever be taken as a shorthand for "bad," which often happens in poor sources of information. We tend to dismiss "hipsters" because we deride their lack of cohesion and perceive it as an assault on our values. Finally, our derision is ironically necessary because it gives the hipsters the necessary challenge to evaluate an idea, process, technology or way of life from a non-idealized perspective. "You may like that fixie, but it is good enough that when everyone is laughing at you, you'll still ride it?" Anyway: vertical farming in urban centers is foolishness. The real estate is simply too valuable. NYC already has a 10% tax. This is a grad school trope and NGO scam with base-level appeal to hippies