I have a vegetable garden close to that size in my back yard. My wife and I get maybe 10 meals out of it a year. That's a hobby, not a farm.
Also, using triple the land you use for vegetables to raise what, maybe two cows?
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I’m glad you mentioned it because I was gonna say… unless everyone is still working $50k+ / year jobs (or a millionaire with money to throw) this is unsustainable. Those farms are laughably small for self sufficiency. Also wtf tractors are you pretending to use on a field that’s barely as big as a kiddie pool??
I know it's possible to get shockingly close to growing enough to feed yourself on surprisingly small plots of land with very careful planning, management, and companion gardening, but something tells me the kind of person willing to dedicate a huge chunk of their "self-sufficient" compound to suburban lawns is not proficient enough to do something like that.
That's my RimWorld base
Well I have the power inside the wall. I'm not that silly.
Can tell he's never set the difficulty higher than Community Builder and doesn't take raids into account for base design.
American tries to reinvent tulou
How rich I wanna be
A giant "evil lair" wasn't too on the nose for the propagandists. They should do a volcano next time or a space station.
I love that image because the American mind cannot comprehend living in a traditional tent inside a cave with your buddies.
I thought that shit looked so dope back in the day
Giant slide down to the bumper cars.
"Last person down is a yankee!"
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I don't understand this weird mix of "rugged individualism, but also I need a gated community" thing that Americans obsess over. Like, if you're already living somewhere remote out in the country, that is your walls, who are these walls keeping out? The immigrant labourers you "hire" to maintain and operate the damn thing?
To keep the slaves in
Goomba fallacy
It's one single individual expressing both those desires in a single AI image though.
And logical fallacies are meant to be used as a tool to examine and remove flaws in your own argument, not as some kind of internet gotcha.
hogs like this fantasize about using their bass pro shop ar-15 to wage war against the national guard who would hypothetically be imposing martial law to uh, force wokeness on them or something
Wall Keeps animals out too, these people are terrified of nature
That's true, just imagine, without the wall they might have an animal touching their precious lawn!
The fools forgot to get a net, the birds are going to get in there and just go crazy.
Those fools left the wind turbine outside the wall! It will soon be mine! MINE!
ah yes, have a fort but keep the power generation and storage outside. mmm hmm. but hey, keep the "cattle field" inside, i'm sure that's enough "cattle field".
And you know this person is the type whose entire personality is eating meat, so it’s extra funny to me.
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Building a castle without knowing that all the food was grown outside the walls lol
I also noticed the power thing like "damn, it'd be a shame if someone sabotaged that power center"
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Ah the CHUD desire to be a feudal manor lord
How rich I wanna be
this is what americans think multi-generational housing is
I think the entire plot inside the walls is enough pasture for one cattle. That cattle pad would starve them.
My thoughts exactly. Walling in your herd of fantasy cattle is the most baby-brained move. There's a reason that nobody did that in the history of ever.
That entire space needs to be vegetables or the whole family's gonna die of malnutrition.
If you genuinely wanted this kind of vibe and had unlimited money, just move to a small but tight knit town with a dense downtown core, put up some walls, and then buy up all the shops and keep the people who work there employed but triple their salaries, and employ everybody else in the town with similarly paid jobs in random new stores for shit you want to exist there. Congrats, you're now effectively a warlord with a private army and you have a pleasant town to live in, not some weird mcmansion fort with a vegetable garden that can maybe support a toddler.
This would require them being not completely paranoid about the poors stealing all their nice things and feeling like they're being ripped off by paying the poors more than they're worth. Being super rich poisons your mind and so they'll be suckered in by meritocracy and protestant work ethic type stuff that makes them think people need to work non stop to deserve a decent life. So this type of idea, while resulting in a better outcome for them, would seem unappealing because they'd see it as just paying for everyone else to jerk around.
Plus their rich friends who they compare themselves to would make fun of them for making such bad business decisions
It's bizarre that you're right, because this is functionally how rich people always worked prior to capitalist brainworms. Rome, China, etc; hell fucking Al Capone worked this way! Warlords always made sure their guys and their families were paid, treated incredibly well, and made to feel invested in whatever enterprise and world they were building. You just need to follow that model and you'll get Caesar's Seventh Legion with all these people who would die for you because they know you're gonna keep everybody they love on the payroll and eating good.
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solar punk with american characteristics. that "multi-generational" housing is atrocious.
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how rich i wanna be
how rich i am: 
They spent years training and rehearsing that exact mission and still crashed a helicopter
that's just what helicopters do 
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I'm sure all that agriculture is going to go really well with no source of water.
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No data center
I only ever wanted to be rich enough that I could build a tower with all of the things people need to survive in or close to it, and they can live in the building self-sufficiently and for free.
Then I still feel bad about it for wanting something that would necessitate other people having to give up a surplus that they generated, so I should never amass the amount of money it would take to build such a building.
Feudalism role play.
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