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If subsistence farming is preferable to being a cog in a market economy, why aren’t people switching in the opposite direction?
by closeparen 8y ago
If subsistence farming is preferable to being a cog in a market economy, why aren’t people switching in the opposite direction?
- s73v3r_ 8y agoWell, for one, that would require you to be able to have land to do so. I would be shocked if many of these people had an actual, freely available choice on the matter.
- balt_s 8y agoAssume you live in a "first-world" nation, how do you propose to become a subsistence farmer?
- Nasrudith 8y agoBuy cheap land out in the middle of nowhere and start farming enough to provide food for yourself and some excess to pay expenses. There is a reason people don't do that.