People who pay for conveniences in order to delegate their labor these days often confuse their class/caste privileges for a sign of maturity. What you’re confusing for a sign of maturity (people cooperating with you because you are competent/ respected) is actually capitalism replacing your social connections with money. You’ll notice that’s also how they trashed the rest of your society, if you take two minutes and think about it.

  • Corelli_III@midwest.socialOPEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Mentioned in another reply I’m working on personal food and water security. I supply about 1/3 of my calories from gardening.

    I did it myself with hand tools, took about 40 hours all said but most of that was up front over about a week. Potatoes are easy and I’m in a region where Tisquantum’s method of sewing the three sisters works really well. My wife does tomato and peppers. Its a lot of potato. 6 ft x 10 ft trench yielded buckets full.

    • Junkers_Klunker@feddit.dkEnglish
      131·
      12 days ago

      So you’re privileged with great soil and still paying someone else for 2/3 of your calories? You see why people may pay others to do something they’d technically could do themselves.

    • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
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      10 days ago

      This kind of shows why people paying others to do time saving tasks are wise. Youve decided to go back to subsidence farming which will consume a significant part of your time while theyve just paid someone w small amount of money to do it.