I'm not in SV and the market where I make my living doesn't have nearly the high salaries or costs, but I've considered getting chickens a few times. I didn't p

I'm not in SV and the market where I make my living doesn't have nearly the high salaries or costs, but I've considered getting chickens a few times. I didn't plan to do it for health reasons, environmental reasons, or any sort of activism. I considered it because working in tech consistently makes me feel very far removed from the kind of lives that many people lived only two generations ago and having backyard chickens has always appealed to me as a way to slow down a bit and do something that's completely different from my usual routine of going to work in a corporate office all day and feeling like everything I do is completely ephemeral. I've been very blessed to get into tech and have a nice living for the last 20 years but some days I really wonder what it would be like to live an existence that wasn't almost completely dedicated to technology. The reason I've never followed through on chickens is because I suspect that having them won't really evoke the kind of connection to simpler times that I crave. I don't really enjoy articles like this. Am I supposed to decide that all backyard chickens are anachronistic foolishness or only that it's silly if it's taken to the extreme presented here? If people get pleasure out of backyard chickens that's nice, regardless of whether they feed them scraps or grilled salmon. I can think of many other pastimes that are far more pernicious.