From r/niceguys but applicable to tubby.
Edit: I remembered the login to a catfish IG! The pics I sent were of some random woman I found on google images and I've since removed them from the DMs. He DMmed this account first after it liked one of his Summer 2000 saga "I'm gonna go to college!" posts and he saw the account was (allegedly) someone in Spokane.
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So, growing up my grandparents had a small herd of cattle (20-30 head) that they kept for the agricultural exemption and to make a little money on the side, so I know a little something about this.
It’s hilarious that he thinks it takes $150,000 worth of land to raise a single head of cattle, especially back when my (and presumably his) grandparents were doing this (I guaranty you my they didn’t have $4.5million worth of land back in the 90’s and if they did, we got royally screwed when we sold it).
For starters, if it did, beef would be outlandishly expensive (to the point that it’d be a delicacy and not something you eat almost daily).
The reality is that you need somewhere between a half to a full acre of land per cow (depending on where you are) and acreage in rural Texas where my Grandparents lived is today about $14000 per acre. In the 80’s and 90’s when our Grandparents were still alive and raising cattle, it was probably like $2k. I assume the costs are the similar in rural Washington.
Cattle, unless you have a massive herd and the land to go with it, isn’t going to transform you into a millionaire and 50 head is not a massive herd. When I grew up, it was something working people who had a bit of land did to knock down their property taxes, make some money on the side and keep meat in the freezer.
Here’s the thing though, for Lucas the money it would take to raise a cow might as well be $150k, or hell $150Million. Either way, it’s more than he’ll ever have and thus is more than he can comprehend. You could hand him a functioning ranch right now and he wouldn’t know what to do with it and wouldn’t care enough to learn. He’d still be sitting on his phone bitching about his lack of a zoomer bae while the cows over feed from a pasture and destroy the soil.
Running a ranch would take work and while his Grandparents sound like they were moderately successful working people, Lucas is so far separated from their mentality that their values might as well be alien to him. This is a guy who can’t handle a job at a fast food restaurant much less real physical work.
When you’re a 40 year old man and your sole goal in life is to impregnate a barely legal teenager, move back in with your folks and live off the dole; real work and the real success that comes with it will remain forever outside your grasp.