A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs to farm

Re:A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs... by bogomipz on Friday November 24, 2017 @06:30PM (#15773590)

>"Most of the hipster microgreen crowd aren't even making their money that way, they are making it by scamming other hipsters into trying to do that by acting like anyone can make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year selling $10/pound lettuce to hipster restaurants."

Can you elaborate on this? What exactly is the scam? How does the scam work?

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Re:A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs... by lancebeet on Friday November 24, 2017 @06:49PM (#15773660)

There are lots of youtube channels (and similar) promoting this idea. These channels can generate a lot of ad revenue for their creators. I'm assuming that's what they're referring to.

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Re:A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs... by jp555 on Friday November 24, 2017 @07:17PM (#15773735)

Unless they’re among the top 500 YouTubers I bet they make more selling fresh basil than YouTube ads.

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Re:A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs... by tfmatt on Friday November 24, 2017 @07:35PM (#15773780)

I would disagree with this, my small YouTube channel ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6WpEeF48A7r032N486j1cQ ) generates a couple hundred a week at which point I rotate videos for newer fresh ones. And this channel is literally about saving money by buying things at thrift stores.

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Re:A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs... by CydeWeys on Friday November 24, 2017 @08:37PM (#15773971)

You've only got a few hundred views in total on all of your videos; how could you possibly be generating a couple hundred dollars per week?

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