He has a good relationshp with his parents. He "talks" to them. His dad sees his messages and does not reply. That sure says he has a good relationship with his dad. We know what kind of "relationship" he has with his mom.
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Gen Z girls, don't miss your chance. Hurry up and line up at the Arena homeless shelter. The future squillionaire is waiting for you.
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I love how he doesn't get how money works.
A single cow, let's pretend, costs that much to raise JUST in property; that means it'd cost even more when you factor in feeding it, vet care, and the cost of slaughter if you're not doing that yourself on site: That would mean it would have to be sold for at least enough to cover that, the cost of the feed, the cost of vet care, and the cost of whatever it takes to pay the mortgage on the farm. That would make any farmer a millionaire if they just raised a few cattle per year.
But that's not how it works, and I know this from having multiple dairy farmers in the family, most of whom have herds of 150-400 cattle; they're always, even in good years, one bad year away from being wiped out
because it's expensive to raise and maintain healthy cattle. They don't make a ton of profit off of the cattle.
Maybe WA is different, but in the midwest, you can buy a half cow for under $300 and a whole cow for around $600 depending on its post-slaughter weight. If a whole dead cow can be sold for $600 after the cut (pun intended) the butcher/slaughterhouse takes for itself, and that cow cost $150k to raise, either the farmer is stupid or Lucas is wrong.
They make enough to afford to keep living there and farming and most farm other non-animal crops in addition to cattle to make up for what cattle cost.
There's a reason most small farmers end up bankrupt and leaving farming and one of those big reasons is it's expensive and, while large scale factory farming can sustain itself due to sheer scale alone, smaller farmers, especially those who raise animals and not just grain crops, can barely turn a profit if they're lucky.
My grandparents got out of farming cattle because it was so expensive, and the only had a heard of eight. Pigs and chickens were way cheaper and turned a higher profit than cattle.
Also $150k for land isn't that much, not in highly rural areas at least. Where I am, you can buy 80 acres for $70k easy; might not have a house or utilities run to it, but you can get the LAND that cheap and do what you want with it.