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> Sure... I would love to play Stardew Valley in "real life" too but it's hard work and economically it's not that lucrative... The thing is... some people hav

• adrianN 8y ago
  Small time farmers are not competitive with large scale industrial farming. In general society regards this as a good thing, since industrial farming allows us to pursue jobs other than farming. I wouldn't want to live in a world where we still require 90% of the population to be farmers.
  • johnchristopher 8y ago
    But large scale industrial farmers don't have time to play Silicon Valley App of the day Sim 2019 either. It's been debated to death and I am not sure the benefits of large scale farming outweigh smaller units. Now you say they "play" Stardew valley... 60-80 hours a week in the field and having to take odd jobs to pay the farm's bill doesn't sound like "playing" to me. Actually, that's really aggressive to mock people like that.
    • owyn 8y ago
      Good point, and it wasn't my intent to mock the farmers, it was aimed at the tone of the article which is like "this is a totally awesome lifestyle thing that you could totally do" while simultaneously pointing out that most of these people inherited their farmland and are still working really hard and in most cases barely scraping by.