• FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Basically all the land is already owned by corporations or farmers with generational wealth. Where will the farmers farm?

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    What are all of our finest bros with carefully curated facial hair and neck tattoos going to do for a living now, if not talk about hustlin’ and unfaithful club rats in front of a mic? I’m not even sure where these dudes worked before podcasts were an option. Bouncers, I guess? Stealing cell phones?

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    Which is more difficult though? Establishing and maintaining a farm or a podcast?

    I think it’s the high barrier to entry (long days, hard work) that prevent more people from starting a podcast

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      Farming is far more demanding in startup capital, labor, skill, and hours.

      Creating a podcast is easy. Creating a good podcast requires skill. Creating a successful podcast requires skill and luck.

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        23 hours ago

        Farming badly and unsuccessfully is comparatively easy as well. Anyone can throw seeds into dirt and wait for rain.

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          Absolutely. My point was that success in farming is determined by startup capital, skill, long hours, and hard labor, whereas success in podcasting requires connections and luck over effort.

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      Unless you’re famous, wildly charismatic, or have some very specialized knowledge I’m not sure how you break into the podcasting game. I mean you could have a podcast, but it wouldn’t earn you a living.

      Farming you could have microgreens or mushrooms in customer hands in a few weeks and that could be done from a closet after watching some youtube videos.

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        I see farmers’ protests almost every quarter about how they are struggling, how bad big farm competition is, how the equipment they need is prohibitively expensive and vendor locked, how any seeds that they need to be competitive are patented and exorbitant in costs. I didn’t know farming was so easy.

        Someone tell the farmers to watch youtube videos and clear out their closets. They clearly are doing something wrong.

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          I’m not saying working your way up to earning a living farming would be any way easy, but you could be earning something a lot sooner than a podcast if you’re starting from zero in both scenarios.

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        Unless you’re famous, wildly charismatic, or have some very specialized knowledge I’m not sure how you break into the podcasting game.

        There are only two real options:

        1. Be part of an existing popular podcast. If you get to be a guest appearance and you’re charismatic enough, you can get invited back more often until you’re a regular. Get good enough to get your own following and then you can eventually break off and do your own thing with sponsorships from the get-go.

        2. Be famous for something else first. If you’re a celebrity, author, streamer, YouTube personality, etc., you can start a podcast from nothing and have your sponsors and listeners already lined up.

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    I rarely listened to podcasts prior to farming. Now, that things are winding down, I’m so far behind in my queue