On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 11:05:50AM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 07:09:22PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > It's *so* easy to grow your own vegetables. > > No one said it was hard... most of the things you pay someone else to > do aren't (though some definitely are).
Well, if you can afford your own Gardener all the better. > The complexity comes from the > sheer number of things, which if you had to do each one yourself, from > scratch, and including learning how to do them, would be overwhelming. > There simply isn't enough time in the day for you to do it all > yourself. Even things that are easy to do take time to learn how. Some people actually do it as a hobby, and you make it sound so much harder than it really is. The real problem is having the land, but a surprising amount can still be grown in window boxes or 'grow boxes'. > Again, that's unless you choose to live an extremely simple life, and > not participate in modern society. Which you can do... most people > just wouldn't ever chose that. I would consider ordering take aways/fast food the 'simple' life. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X
