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I just don’t understand why you would ask that question of perfect strangers on Hacker News. And why would you call homesteading a bandwagon? It’s a major life
by satisfice 5y ago
I just don’t understand why you would ask that question of perfect strangers on Hacker News.
And why would you call homesteading a bandwagon? It’s a major life decision, not a new kind of yoga pants.
It’s very simple, really. Are you happy? Are likely to be happy? No? Then come home Bill Bailey.
- core-utility 5y ago> And why would you call homesteading a bandwagon? It’s a major life decision, not a new kind of yoga pants. This is true, but I understand why OP would say it's a bandwagon. There's been a sharp increase in homesteading as a trend going around Tik Tok, YouTube, etc. People are seemingly more interested in it now.
- satisfice 5y agoI want to encourage us to distinguish between something that happens to be trending, and you decide to do it, versus doing something BECAUSE it is trending. Invoking “bandwagon” sounds like you are doing it for FOMO purposes rather than because it is a fit for you.
- pjc50 5y agoI think it's the result of being influenced by _youtube_. Are people just more impressionable or is there something different about all this algorithmic, highly personal media? Every kind of bad decision seems to have a youtube/tiktok following, who seem not to understand how "produced" their videos are. It also seems that OP has done this on their own, without a partner? Makes it an even more terribly lonely path to follow. There's a reason people everywhere get out of subsistence farming as soon as possible: it's _hard_.