My city is full of shops and restaurants run by people who worked corporate jobs for decades while saving up to open their dream shop. The commercial landlords have realized this, and raised rents to the point where profitable businesses are a financial impossibility—they just aim to drain their tenants’ life savings as quickly as possible while they line up the next hopefuls. The city is full of amazing shops and restaurants, but they have a turnover time in months.

Goat herding, on the other hand, is much less susceptible to commercial rent inflation.

Ok, I'm not that rich. But I did start a distillery once I paid off the house. It's doing well but I needed to do something tangible instead of being strapped to a computer.

Yeah, this shit is basically a cottagecore fantasy for tech men

Having owned a small business like that, I wouldn't do it unless I was independently wealthy. The stress isn't worth it, especially in a remote place without much foot traffic.

Accurate but I want bees.

Goats for me.

Goats are delicious.

I did not need this to hit so hard right now. Time to start a new therapeutic rye sourdough.

100%. The desire to regress to a simpler mode of life sprouts from petty bourgeois ideology, when the real answer is progression beyond the decay of Capitalism so we can continue progressing onwards. Great comment, comrade 🫡