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

Re:A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs... by erikpukinskis on Saturday November 25, 2017 @01:30AM (#15774723)

> Once enough people do this, the prices fall and you're just another farmer, scraping by.

You’re assuming that the bulk of the market always has to be cheap commodity goods. But the idea behind the artisanal movement is that both sides of the market will change. More small producers will produce more high quality goods and more consumers will pay high prices to buy them. Both sides need to grow in synchrony.

Maybe you can argue the dominance of low quality commodity foods is inevitable. I’d love to see that argument.

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Re:A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs... by naavis on Saturday November 25, 2017 @02:43AM (#15774906)

There is a huge number of people who can barely afford to buy cheap food now, let alone expensive "artisanal" food.

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Re:A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs... by mygo on Saturday November 25, 2017 @11:04AM (#15776480)

There is a huge number of people who can barely afford to buy cheap laptops now, let alone expensive MacBooks.

Doesn’t change the fact that Apple is the most profitable firm.

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Re:A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs... by d10r on Monday November 27, 2017 @01:00AM (#15785206)

It's also a matter of priorities, I'm currently "poor" by the definition of the (western) country I live in, but can afford quality food by choosing to prioritize it.

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Re:A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs... by FussyZeus on Saturday November 25, 2017 @10:49AM (#15776399)

There's also a huge number of people (myself included) who can afford (and do afford) to buy expensive quality stuff.

I don't hold it against science and bio-tech for bringing high yield and disease resistant crops to market; that shit will help us feed the whole planet economically. Doesn't mean I can't also enjoy organic, non-altered food in my own home. I get annoyed with this attitude so many people have about these things, that somehow we can either feed the whole planet economically or have ritzy well-to-do people buy organic kale. We can do both very easily.

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Re:A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs... by erikpukinskis on Sunday November 26, 2017 @04:23PM (#15783067)

The idea is that those people become producers of high margin goods too, and then they can afford to buy high margin goods themselves.

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