The everyday living shit you don't know about!

[80watts]

There is the joke about how every family should have:
1. An accountant
2. Travel planner
3. Investment guy/girl
4. lawyer
5. doctor
6. Real estate guy/girl

When I was in high school, things seemed so simple, or has the amount you need to know to keep your head above water increased. I think so.
Home Computers came out in the 80s and the internet took off in the 90s. Cell phone took off in the 2000s. Social media platform 2010s....
Every family needs some type of computer just to access some things online.

Part of this increase in knowledge base came from the close of the cold war, where companies used to stand on an patent for years and gov contracts. With that ending companies had to rethink strategies and get a product out to market alot sooner.

Today we are bombarded with so much information our head spins from it.

 

[overdone]

so you think you didn't need any of those in the 70's or 80's?

and you think people were up on everything back then too?

nothing has changed, people are still as stupid as they have ever been

you couldn't know everything back then, you can't now

but the basics, people still don't

that's why we have the pathetic leaders in the world we have now, have had for the last 100 yrs

tech isn't making it better harder or people smarter

 

[jgg]

You can live without an accountant, travel planner, investment advisor, lawyer, doctor or realtor.

You can't live without a farmer, and if you are lucky, he's there for you three times a day.

 

[apl16]

You can live without an accountant, travel planner, investment advisor, lawyer, doctor or realtor.

You can't live without a farmer, and if you are lucky, he's there for you three times a day.

Or the corporate version of a farmer

 

[jgg]

Or the corporate version of a farmer

I am uncertain what your comment references, but here is a brief explanation of Canadian farm makeup.

In 2021, Stats Canada said there were;
189,874 farms of all types in Canada.
43,233 were Family Farm Corporations, which is 22.8%.
4,591 were Non-Family Corporations, which is 2.4%.

Most Non-Family or "commercial" Corporations have no stomach for modern agriculture's risk and financial variability.

One Canadian farmer produces enough food to feed 120 people.
10% of Canadian farmers produce more than 2/3 of the total production by revenue.

 

[80watts]

You can live without an accountant, travel planner, investment advisor, lawyer, doctor or realtor.

You can't live without a farmer, and if you are lucky, he's there for you three times a day.

Really? Most people buy houses through real estate agents. Doctors and hospitals for your health.... Accountants/investment advisors are needed to find your way through the money part.
I might not need them every day, but doctors do come in handy....

yeah... Food, forgot about that....

Electronics are the most damming things, I don't know exactly how they work, but I use them to operate things....

Ever buy a video game with no instructions.....

 

[apl16]

I am uncertain what your comment references, but here is a brief explanation of Canadian farm makeup.

In 2021, Stats Canada said there were;
189,874 farms of all types in Canada.
43,233 were Family Corporations, which is 22.8%.
4,591 were Non-Family Corporations, which is 2.4%.

Most Non-Family or "commercial" Corporations have no stomach for modern agriculture's risk and financial variability.

One Canadian farmer produces enough food to feed 120 people.
10% of Canadian farmers produce more than 2/3 of the total production by revenue.

Thank you for using your stats to prove my point

 

[Lo-ki]

In Vermont…it is against the law to whistle under water……..

 

[licks2nite]

Consider an analogous situation to the war in Ukraine. Your neighbour beats his wife and stresses his children from time to time. Facial injuries on the wife and you're invited by the wife with the eldest son to take reprisal against the veteran. Initially the motive unclear. You're invited to dinner with them one night and witness an assault. The veteran of WWII picks her up, turns her upside-down and shoves her head first into an old wringer washing machine. Him screaming about no potatoes in there. (Folks in past decades stored where they could and kept green tomatoes under the bed to ripen for Christmas.) For the veteran it's all about *sitting* down at a table to eat a meal. Any deviation from dinner table etiquette what people do for war. Keep elbows off the table, etc. A decade wares on and the couple separate. The eldest son finally gets a drop on the veteran who ran at the eldest son who straightens his arm out into the veteran's jaw. Reportedly his jaw stopped so suddenly that his legs, feet and body came up horizontal at the son's shoulder.

Back to the analogy in Ukraine. Laws were broken. Tax evasion smuggling cigarettes. 14,000 dead before the war starts.

 

[Brielle Baby]

Well, I would add hairstylist, though I'm sure many would disagree 🫠

 

[Boogeryyc]

Well, I would add hairstylist, though I'm sure many would disagree 🫠

Completely agree. My barber is more effective than any therapist I’ve gone to and the barbershop is my spiritual place of relaxation and recovery

 

[GeeBeeP]

Well, I would add hairstylist, though I'm sure many would disagree 🫠

Absolutely!! I’d put it a number 3 on the OP’s list. Unless you’re keeping a bald head or crew cut maintained cutting your own hair can lead to a bloody disaster.

With a little research you can learn to do your own taxes, and plan your own travel. Same with Investing and real estate which are both much simpler on your own in the internet age.

However: Acting as your own lawyer is foolish, and knowing a friendly doc would make life much easier to navigate these days. In addition to the cut a good hair dresser / barber can be the best and cheapest therapy.

 

[sybian]

I am uncertain what your comment references, but here is a brief explanation of Canadian farm makeup.

In 2021, Stats Canada said there were;
189,874 farms of all types in Canada.
43,233 were Family Corporations, which is 22.8%.
4,591 were Non-Family Corporations, which is 2.4%.

Most Non-Family or "commercial" Corporations have no stomach for modern agriculture's risk and financial variability.

One Canadian farmer produces enough food to feed 120 people.
10% of Canadian farmers produce more than 2/3 of the total production by revenue.

Once all us good farmers and ranchers are gone….who the hell is going to feed everyone.?

 

[picante55]

Once all us good farmers and ranchers are gone….who the hell is going to feed everyone.?

The sad part is most people don't question that because they think their food comes from the grocery store.

 

[sybian]

The sad part is most people don't question that because they think their food comes from the grocery store.

Yup….and wrapped in plastic with a styrofoam tray

 

[jgg]

Once all us good farmers and ranchers are gone….who the hell is going to feed everyone.?

Literally a vanishing breed.

 

[80watts]

There is a little trend, where people go to live off-grid in mountain areas etc. By definition they would have to be self-efficient and produce their own food.

 

[omnedon]

As much as farmers feed the world, (I am one), do not ever discount the other professions. We need trades, doctors, grocery clerks, hell even politicians. We live in a very complex and integrated society. True self sufficiency is a mirage.

 

[Pumped]

All I know for certain is that I can definitely live without trolls.