Someday in the future lefty Utopia
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Even if that were true, are we going to legislate the Sun itself to add 4-6 hours to the day to give people the time to work and harvest that?
Because that's why things ended up moving away from that in the first place. Once you had to go to work instead of working around your own home and land, you no longer had the time to care for your own land while also having a family and time for any leisure.
I work 40 hours a week, I literally own a farm, and I still have time for leisure. I just don't live in Eloi-ville where it takes me half a day to get to and from work because I am sharing the road with all the other Eloi.
My entire daily routine for taking care of two acres of fields, another acre of orchard, couple dozen chickens and a couple of pigs takes less than an hour a day. When the last pumpkins get ripe and the sweet potatoes mature, I will have to spend about an hour a day hauling them to the storage shed.
The modern concept of farming as subsistence labor hasn't been true in the Western world for a long time.
Well I'll just let all the rest of America know that we need to rip up our acres of lawn that we all have so that way we can accomplish the same tasks you do with your already established and running farmland.
I'm sure tomorrow if I went outside and just threw some seeds in the ground and put up a fence, I'd have a sub hour hobby that provided plants to eat within the season and animals with minimal care or investment to put in.
Or, instead of speaking authoritatively about a subject you don't know much about, you could do some research. Joel Salatin, David Goodman, Steve Solomon, and Kevin Espiritu are great starters.
You could, right now, lay down some newspaper and some store bought compost and grow some winter vegetables (your local extension office will have details for what varieties are best for the area).
Or, you could keep financing companies that hate you and have openly talked about the fact that they don't care about food quality, just their bottom line.
Of course, those are the only two options possible. The one where you finance "evil" and the one where You, a totally unbiased source, are the only bastion of freedom and goodness.