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Riversntallbuildings t1_iwan7li wrote

Reply to comment by DrHalibutMD in Farmers in China and Uganda move to high-yielding, cost-saving perennial rice by tonymmorley

Correct. If there was UBI and I didn’t have to worry about the markets and healthcare and all sorts of other necessities, I would gladly farm my life away.

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SprucedUpSpices t1_iwbo1ga wrote

Farming's very hard. The vast majority of people wouldn't do it for free.

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EkkoGold t1_iwbqd1o wrote

UBI doesn't mean you do work for free. You do work to supplement your basic income

So you'd be getting paid on top of your UBI to do farm work. It's still hard labor and not for everyone, but you're more likely to find people willing to "try it" when they aren't having to do it to survive

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TheHunnyRunner t1_iwbsj6j wrote

Agreed. As a young man I helped my great uncle run his apple orchard. We thinned the apples in the heavy rain, cut/scraped skin daily, set and repaired irrigation. Then when it was harvest time, we picked a sack of apples for time (piece work) while trying to also be safe with ladder placements in near 100 degree heat. It's hard work.

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Riversntallbuildings t1_iwce2uc wrote

Yup. I grew up on a rural farm. It was brutal, especially in the winter.

Still, there’s something rewarding about growing food for other people and spending most of my time outside in nature. I’m sure I’m romanticizing it a bit.

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mhornberger t1_iwcl60o wrote

Most people mean they'd putter around so long as it was amusing. They'd never want to have to survive that way. They're mistaking a hobby garden for a farm.

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Willow-girl t1_iwbofup wrote

I did it for nearly 20 years; you just have to get used to being really poor.

And, what is this "healthcare" of which you speak?

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