It may have been the case before that people thought hard work brought a better life, but now things have changed
Professor Bobby Duffy worked on the study, and said that millennials have ‘become much more sceptical about prioritising work as they’ve made their way through their career’.
Not necessarily subsistence, but like growing your own garden to feed your family, plus focus on one crop you can sell locally? I’m down for that.
Gardening as a hobby will end up costing most people more money than they save from eating what they grow. Turns out, farming is a profession for good reason-it’s hard to do well unless you put in a lot of work. One of the under-discussed aspects of the baby boom and its attendant economic boom is that the boomers represented a massive shift from rural communities and agricultural labor to cities and industrial labor or white collar work. As an example, my dad and his five siblings grew up on a farm in Minnesota, and not a single one of them stayed farmers. Every one of them decided life in the city and getting a college degree was better than getting up at 5 to milk cows and collect eggs.