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Re:I Tried to Live Without the Tech Giants. It Was Impossible by 52-6F-62 on Friday August 14, 2020 @10:35AM (#24158446)
A lot of farmers still do. Especially older ones. I don’t know about the USA but up here many older farmers operated entirely on in person deals with other farmers, farmers markets, and local grocers.

(Depending on how abstracted you want to get, but yes the farmer probably filled up their pickup for the morning delivery at a gas station that has a POS that connects to some service that interacts with AWS somewhere a long the line. Though the farmers I’d met likely used cash)

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Re:I Tried to Live Without the Tech Giants. It Was Impossible by dylan604 on Friday August 14, 2020 @11:13AM (#24158953)
I'm really not sure where the GP was trying to take the sustaining w/o Amazon would be impossible. It's not like farmers are buying there tonnage of seeds from Amazon. They are not buying new calves at Amazon. They don't buy tractors from Amazon. Maybe they buy new items for the kitchen/office, but that's not a large line item on the farm.
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