[–] Inatehiggers ago 

The government steals all your labor

[–] Mind_Games 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Being rich in this enviornment means more free time. Period.

Free time and power, ...does that get abused ? Absolutely, but given the choice (which we all have) to be

poor and enslaved or rich and enslaved...guess which one I'm picking.

I'm also afforded more opportunities in ways to support my ideas of freedom for the days when the Government inevitably crashes.

You seem to think you must be poor in order to be enslaved, disgruntled, or patriotic

You need to rethink your entire approach.

[–] DanaNordic ago 

Perhaps I misunderstood your definition of rich. For me, there is a wide range between rich and poor.

[–] Mind_Games ago 

I'm thinking that's very likely.

If you think you're going to have anything but a very very very difficult and tough life being a farmer or rancher...

you've only experienced it buy buying produce/meat at your local warehouse supplier, and think about those industries as romanticized perversions of what small farming actually is. (Because, there's zero chance you're going in as a greenhorn with the financial backing to be anything but).

Yet middle American farmers have fed 70% of the world for well over 50 years now.

We shut down the government's control over the price and allow the free market to take place and you'd

see megafarms being walled up and the cost of (ex) an ear of corn go from .10-.25c in the summer to whatever

the market called for. $6/ear ? $10 ? We'd see just how many morbidly obese people there were when their food bill goes from $150/person (per month) to $1000.