Quote from: doomloop on April 22, 2025, 08:59:23 PM

Quote from: uneng on April 21, 2025, 02:20:22 PM

Most people nowadays don't want to live as farmers anymore. The scenario is completely different from the past century, where the countryside was the home of big families who worked on the fields. The tendency is that youngs migrate to larger urban centers, leaving the countryside empty. So there is a minority of wealthy businessmen who own technological resources who purchases those lands and start growing crops and breeding animals in large scale. Without concurrence, they feel free to put the prices they wish on the products.

Of course there is also the taxes factor implied, which raises production's costs, but it doesn't justify the fact food is really expensive (and getting more and more expensive, while quality decreases). More competition would balance prices and quality, but that is a game for big players most of us don't have access to, so it's more convenient that such big players just organize themselves in lobbies.

Which shocks me. As someone who lives in a populated big city, it baffles me that people want to live in the cities. I do not see many benefits of it, maybe medical care here is a lot better considering there are many public and private hospitals all around me, so I agree that medical part is better here. But aside from that, life sounds a lot better as a farmer than what I am doing right now.

There are two reasons why I am not becoming a farmer, first is I have no clue how to farm, never seen how a farm is managed, never even played those farm manager type of computer games, so I am not a farmer because I don't know how to be. Secondly, it requires capital even to be a farmer, you see that as a low job, but the costs of a farm, is a lot. From tractors to seeds to other machinery, to buying a huge plot of land, many many things cost a lot before you make your first income.

For those who have been living on a city and wanting up to go into rural or province just because they do want to have that peaceful living then its understandable but when it comes to accessibility into those important offices or facilities then you will definitely be having a problem specially on hospitals and other important places. This is why rich people do live on condominiums on which they are just that thinking about those simple aspects that will be that giving out that convenience into their lives. Living on a city is much convenient.

Lets go back into the talks about farming on which why most of people do look down into farmers?Come to think that if they werent that existing then we wont be having something to eat like on rice and vegetables.
As for the talks about food might be luxury in the future or something that becomes scarce on which it comes into a point that people are fighting for then this is unlikely to happen. Just like on what been mentioned by some people is that there are already alternatives on how to culture different crops or even sea foods and poultry too on which its hard to believe that we will be coming into this condition.