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by squish78 7y ago
Learning how to grow and preserve your own food, fix your own vehicles and appliances, build things instead of buying cheap Amazon/Chinese shit, raise animals, and maintain a dwelling are drastic changes and don't require governme
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by squish78 7y ago
I'm thrilled to see this comment upvoted, and you've said some of my own thoughts much better than I could articulate. This mode of thinking helps me re-orient my life goals around 5-year or 10-year plans based on cultivating my l
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by squish78 7y ago
I understand you, and agree with you. I'm just searching for a realistic, implementable solution and nobody seems to be able to elaborate.
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by squish78 7y ago
So what would a realistic implementation be? This isn't realistic for most of the developing world, which is growing faster than anywhere else. Who is going to tell subsistence farmers that they can't have bigger families to help
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by squish78 7y ago
So what is a real-world implementation of this notion?
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What system would do that best?
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by squish78 7y ago
There's a whole world outside of European history
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by squish78 7y ago
That hyperlink goes to another Vice article: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mbmqxq/heres-the-memo-cur... Edit - Which apparently has the document embedded, but doesn't render in Edge.
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by squish78 7y ago
Google's greatest PR move was convincing people that they're not a soulless billion dollar corporation like those other soulless billion dollar corporations
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by squish78 7y ago
I don't recall mentioning anything about lords and feudal duty
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by squish78 7y ago
Legal access, not physical. If you don't buy or rent land, you cannot farm it. A small amount of capital would be required to get a subsistence farm up-and-going when historically it was community of family land without all of the mode
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by squish78 7y ago
I keep thinking about how subsistence farming was the de facto for most people for most of history. I wonder how many people would choose that option over living on the streets if access to farmland were easier.
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by squish78 7y ago
The memo, since it's not actually linked in this Vice article, for anyone who would rather read the source material than the editorializing: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6240022-I-m-Not-Retu...
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by squish78 7y ago
Thank you for explaining it better than I could
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by squish78 7y ago
This is possible, and there is an entire agricultural method to it called Hügelkultur https://www.permaculture.co.uk/articles/many-benefits-hugelk...
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by squish78 7y ago
"trucks last longer" is an arbitrary measurement to this scenario. If it's broken down and you don't have the means to replace it or buy a new one, you can't operate your business
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by squish78 7y ago
That, and 85% of people were peasants who didn't have access to guild society
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by squish78 7y ago
If you depend on a reliable work truck for your livelihood, it's not mild. It's like saying "I guess my 2008 laptop will have to keep working for a few more years, there is no budget in the foreseeable future to upgrade"
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by squish78 7y ago
The problem with megafarms is that they are not sustainable long-term. Such intensive agriculture pulls nutrients from the soil faster than they can be replenished - year after year after year. So farmers have to supplement more and more w
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by squish78 7y ago
That sounds nice. I'm convinced a mid-size college town has the best of both worlds
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by squish78 7y ago
My life is incredibly rich, but I measure it more by my physical/mental health, my community, and time I get to spend with my family
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by squish78 7y ago
I'm a big proponent of no-till farming. There are some interesting experiments with intensive small-scale farming with introducing compost and mulch to more or less barren areas, which provide enough nutrition to grow 'compost cr
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by squish78 7y ago
Is anyone else concerned that food production is being consolidated into the hands of a few massive corporations? Somehow this is more troubling to me than the energy, automobile, or computer industries
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by squish78 7y ago
It might be inconceivable to the HN demographic but some people truly enjoy the small town/ rural lifestyle
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by squish78 7y ago
Like most things in the modern world, an accurate answer is nuanced. The most sustainable way to farm would be to open pastured cattle, pigs, and sheep which would drop manure in a fallow field and add tons of organic nutrients to the soil
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by squish78 7y ago
Herbs are a fantastic place to start, and there are tons of medical benefits for consuming them regularly. I chew fresh mint and basil every day instead of gum Depending on your climate, you might enjoy mushroom cultivation. It's very
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by squish78 7y ago
I agree. For a beginner, the first year is almost always disappointing. But after several years of trying and learning, you may be shocked at the abundance you can produce. I'm grateful for all the authors and youtube-ers doing some
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by squish78 7y ago
What a cool idea. I'm encouraged everytime I see projects like these and I realize that there's a massive movement towards sustainable agriculture in small spaces.
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by squish78 7y ago
I don't think the average person should expect or try to. But there are people who produce tonnages of produce on a 1/10th acre (granted, these are in California and Florida with year-round growing). The person in my parent post t
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by squish78 7y ago
I think these experiments are meaningful and fascinating for research purposes, but they will never be more efficient than nature. The solution to food security is not to re-engineer the farm, but to return food production to people, becaus

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