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Besides "Americas army" there really arent any video games with an intention of bringing you to the profession. It's really just about having fun. I do recall a
by incomingpain 4y ago
Besides "Americas army" there really arent any video games with an intention of bringing you to the profession. It's really just about having fun. I do recall a US general talking about how this doesn't work and the overweight/obesity epidemic amongst gamers is a huge impediment to enrollment. Video games aside.
Really the question, why so few farmers?
Government education has specifically trained and discouraged people from becoming farmers, intentionally reducing the number of farmers.
Biosciences has made farming quite unprofitable. The use of fertilizers, gmos, pesticides, etc have made a small time farmer basically unprofitable compared to the farmer with 80,000 acres and large machines.
There are better professions to earn a living. Hell, the cost of startup is ridiculous. ~86 acres near where i live is $5 million.
You also cant really live near cities. There's no rockstars coming to rural canada. You have to live in toronto to get those rockstars. Good internet is also not in rural areas.
But then you also have governments actively taxing farmers to tremendous degree. For example, Carbon taxes disproportionately impact a farmer's old diesel in his massive tractor compared to a econobox tiny car. Farmers obviously don't care. A wide carbon tax like that ends up in the consumer's hands as food inflation.
https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/food-inflation https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/food-inflation
Basically nobody has normal/low food inflation because of this.
Then you have the 'fertilizer reductions'... https://wheatgrowers.ca/advocacy-resources/fertilizer-reduction/ https://wheatgrowers.ca/advocacy-resources/fertilizer-reduct...
IF you work in an industry where the government is actively screwing you over so much. You choose a new profession right away. Hence no farmers.