tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post1450035922908834940..comments2023-08-15T06:33:53.114-07:00Comments on Bison Prepper: consuming more consumerismJames M Dakinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-58063030381513820482014-12-12T14:25:21.878-08:002014-12-12T14:25:21.878-08:00Taxes? we don't need no stinkin' taxes!
Ac...Taxes? we don't need no stinkin' taxes!<br />Actually taxes are exactly why I want to make most of my land improvements out of sight, and need to grow some nice thick hedge along the road side of my land...JJGreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06708302086326564665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-60189311317276661602014-12-10T16:05:14.739-08:002014-12-10T16:05:14.739-08:00No doubt that is now makes economic sense ( compar...No doubt that is now makes economic sense ( comparing organics ) to grow your own food ( except probably grains if small scale ). But, try doing it without having a job. Mostly to pay taxes. So, it is stuck at consumerism.James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-20810690067428261602014-12-10T14:57:51.215-08:002014-12-10T14:57:51.215-08:00Has anyone here priced out "self reliance&quo...Has anyone here priced out "self reliance"? Subsistence farming, on a $/hr of labor basis pays far worse than working at a cube farm and buying your food from a supermarket.<br />At least, it did. The cost of working for the corps (and growing industrial ag) was basically subsidized by industrial machinery, slowly but surely requiring less human hands to make productive more acres- now in the wheat belt a wheat farm less than several square miles in size is considered too small to even bother buying out.<br />And these farms of dozens of square miles are tended by at most a dozen workers running big equipment and computers- and most of those workers only work the farm part time at harvest and planting seasons (and if the market is good, they will make a profit in the 6-8 figures, and if it isn't they get a .Gov hand-out of 5-6 figures). <br />BUT as oil gets more expensive and inflation eats away at the value of the corp. provided dollar, it begins making more and more sense economically to provide at least some of your own food. <br />In other words, the trend of the past 100+ years off the small farm has begun to reverse itself...<br />JJGreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06708302086326564665noreply@blogger.com