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For context on what it takes to plant 3 million trees:

I worked one season as a planter when I was younger and put just under 50,000 trees in the ground. It was my first (and only) season doing that job. So in theory, twenty rookie planters could plant a million trees in about two months.

Those would make great planters.

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Where is the option for the cotton planter to change careers to something they find interesting and challenging?

Does it matter? If you have a job that you studied for in college and suddenly notice it doesnt fit you, you have to work a lot to correct that for no pay, you actually have to pay for it. Also if youre 40+ and want to start a new career human resource managers will rather take someone who didnt have the issues like you and has the years experience in actual work at the same job. So you will always be at a huge disadvantage if you decide to change professions.
All these "super successful" people you see on TV that proudly talk about how they did all that so well, "just because they worked soooooo hard" (everyone either does that, or claims it), are exceptions to the rule!



Where are the benefits of infrastructure?

Uhm, those infrastructures are mostly used to get to your job or do your job anyway. What good are they if you work where you live, like those slaves?



How about healthcare?

AFAIK slaves got good healthcare, since they were property and the owner would lose money if they "broke" and couldnt be fixed.
Also I wouldnt call American healthcare good. People have to pay for it. And often have to take huge debts on themselves and their family to survive or be still able to work.



How about individual's rights?

Individual's rights? Yeah, maybe against other "slaves", but not against the state or rich people. They will always have a huge advantage compared to you. And actually they do what they want all over the world. Just look at those cesspools Syria, Libya, Ukraine, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. Millions killed for what? Are you safer now than before 9/11? No. The whole world is actually MUCH MUCH unsafer now. All thanks to your masters that care so much about the "individual's rights".
They even have the audacity to threaten NATO countries with invasion if they ever dared to bring one of them before an international tribunal.



How about protection from hostility?

Hostility from whom? Terrorists? Are you kidding me? Terrorists who are only created due to inhumane politics aswell? Criminals? Do you know that crime is actually not something we are born with, but we actually learn to do, because of our surroundings? If a lot of people feel treated unfair and cant do anything about it, crime rate will skyrocket. It has been that way for thousands of years. Look at other countries that treat their people much more humane and actually even pay then enough to live a good life even if they dont work, or have never worked! They shudder when seeing American crime rates. You can compare yourself more to Brazil than to Europe.



How about ever improving quality of life?

Most people are extremely stressed in their life, due to their job, not having enough time because of their job, being frustrated because other people have more then them, while working less (or not at all), having health issues due to their work and they know they cant change the job because they wont get another one, they simply hate their job, but also know they cant get a better one, etc, etc, etc.
There was a study a few years ago where they found out that people 500-1000 years ago were actually very happy. They didnt have to work nearly as much as we do nowadays! It wasnt rare that they only worked 6 months a year, and even if they worked they had MUCH longer breaks every day and didnt work as long. And they lived a good life for those times. Of course nowhere near as good as the monarchs, but it wasnt nearly as bad as its commonly claimed.

One thing has changed though: If youre smart and/or lucky (as in having a rich family) you can open your own company, do what you love. But even that gets harder and harder because the competition gets higher in numbers and in quality.

It's definitely not spot on. It makes some points, but it misses them elsewhere.

Where is the option for the cotton planter to change careers to something they find interesting and challenging?

Where are the benefits of infrastructure?

How about healthcare?

How about individual's rights?

How about protection from hostility?

How about ever improving quality of life?

I'm all for complaining about the clown show that is the current state of US (amongst other countries) politics. But don't pretend that you are afforded no benefits by the state.

This has the intellectual honesty of a Bill O'reilly segment.

It is a basic Ideological difference, one/some believe that a soul extends to consciousness.

One/Some believe that consciousness is not actually known in terms of "soul" but the premise is based on the fact science dictates that a collection of functioning organs that include the brain are what constitutes an aware and sufferable being. I have a planter wart that is starting on my hand, it started last week that I can recall, that is a collection of cells, I can not think of this collection of cells any different than a starting fetus.

You are looking for a reason or a definition you flat out will not regard or accept until you really open your mind to what the universe is.

You will not get a satisfactory answer from anyone " on this side of the wall " because it does not fit within your reality.
wont happen, you are not open.

I say turn em into Geiger-esque style planters.

>> ^MilkmanDan:

>> ^brycewi19:
>> ^blahpook:
The amount of manual labor here was surprising.

Yet refreshing.

To each his own, but ... why?
I grew up on a large family farm for wheat and corn in Kansas. My father talks about how from the time he was born till the time I was born, the farm operations went from being handled by about 10-15 full-time family member workers plus maybe 60+ seasonal harvest workers to having roughly 4 full-time workers and an additional 8 or so harvest part-timers. 75 plus down to 12.
First they got tractors for tilling. Then planter attachments for the tractors. Then the first harvester machines, etc. etc. on down to today, where we've got 2 massive combines running during harvest, 1 or 2 tractors with grain hoppers (serve other purposes outside of harvest season), 4-6 semi trucks with grain hopper trailers, and a central location with a set of large grain storage bins.
With the machines, we get higher yields per acre and less loss due to human error mistakes. We harvest over twice as much land in significantly less time. In the past 60 years, grain prices have crept up at a rate way lower than inflation, while prices for labor-intensive crops like fruit actually outpace inflation.
I am most definitely a biased source, but from my perspective more mechanization equals more food to go around, and lower food prices for everyone. I'd say that is pretty refreshing too!
No offense meant, just a different perspective.


I see both sides of the argument. I fully understand the advantages of automation, but how do you feel about there being fewer jobs for people?

Serious question, I'm not trolling. There are again arguments each way. The jobs are seasonal and I'm guessing the people helping with harvests aren't paid very well, so it's not about high quality work. But in a country where there is a lot of unemployment do you think it would be worth cutting back on the automation to help out or would this just price you out the market?

Personally I don't know, but I'm interested in your opinion.

>> ^brycewi19:

>> ^blahpook:
The amount of manual labor here was surprising.

Yet refreshing.


To each his own, but ... why?

I grew up on a large family farm for wheat and corn in Kansas. My father talks about how from the time he was born till the time I was born, the farm operations went from being handled by about 10-15 full-time family member workers plus maybe 60+ seasonal harvest workers to having roughly 4 full-time workers and an additional 8 or so harvest part-timers. 75 plus down to 12.

First they got tractors for tilling. Then planter attachments for the tractors. Then the first harvester machines, etc. etc. on down to today, where we've got 2 massive combines running during harvest, 1 or 2 tractors with grain hoppers (serve other purposes outside of harvest season), 4-6 semi trucks with grain hopper trailers, and a central location with a set of large grain storage bins.

With the machines, we get higher yields per acre and less loss due to human error mistakes. We harvest over twice as much land in significantly less time. In the past 60 years, grain prices have crept up at a rate way lower than inflation, while prices for labor-intensive crops like fruit actually outpace inflation.

I am most definitely a biased source, but from my perspective more mechanization equals more food to go around, and lower food prices for everyone. I'd say that is pretty refreshing too!

No offense meant, just a different perspective.

this was definitely under 're-use' as that definition includes re-purposing. the toilet tank idea is pretty good and probably better than bending the rod that holds the air bladder.

the planter thing is kind of cool too. kind of retro-DIY...

Ahhhh back in teh good ol' days when we made planters out of puuuuuuuure LEAD. :-D

Man, the elderly person at 2:22 went down HARD. Bone snapping hard. *shudders*

If someone moved that planter at the bottom of the screen nearer the ramp/curb transition, this problem would go away.

Bravo! Aside from shitting in a planter, what else is there to do at the mall?

>How very astute of you, you're right, tasering some little scrote is the perfect way to stop them from doing something this stupid ever again.
Till you just tasered the wrong guy by accident. That's why we let the law dole out our justice. Innocent till proven guilty.
I await your stupid reply, my spider senses are tingling and i know you're gonna come back with one.


HELLO! Are you BLIND?! The guy's black. He's BOUND to be guilty of SOMETHING. Tasering him is the only way to make sure he learns to stop hating whitey. </sarcasm>

But, honestly, he had to know something was gunna happen. You don't stand around ON TOP OF A PLANTER looking suspicious as all hell as a brick flies at a cop car from his direction. We also don't know the whole story. Was anybody else even around to point the finger at? He could have been talking back to the cop, and the situation was more heated than the video shows. He was probably warned more than once. I'm sure there is a reason the video leaves out the part leading up to this incident.

Also, when was the last time you heard of some white crackhead, who just got beat down by the cops, suing the police department for "violating their civil rights?" Either it's racist black people, who damn well know they're guilty of something, throwing down the civil rights defense, or it's racist white people only violating the civil rights of black people. Either way, SOMEBODY got pissed off, and SOMEBODY overreacted.

If some fool threw a brick through my window, you better damn well believe the last thing I'm concerned about is his motherfucking civil rights. The prick gave up that right when he damaged my property and put my safety in jeopardy. However, if this guy wasn't the one responsible for the brick throwing (and he probably was), it's still pretty god damned suspicious to be 18 years old, and standing on top of a planter on city property, outside the police headquarters.

I just get the image in my head of some young punk listening to too much cop-hating rap music, glaring at every cop car that passes by. Finally, he reaches the boiling point and just chucks the nearest heavy object at some white oppressor. When he gets beat down for it and handed his well-deserved punishment, it's "Oh HELL nah!" And now we get to see the judicial system being exploited once again, in the name of 'civil rights violations.'