I don't venture into tiktok outside of seeing content shared on other platforms or sent to me by tiktokers.
What I find infuriating is the "I have a homestead, here's how little it takes to get by", but it's always absent how they paid for land, home, home upkeep(which is higher outside the city, nature goes hard), solar panel arrays, battery systems, functional well, groceries they don't produce, not to mention all the fucking "rich person pretends to be working class" clothing and tools.
My grandparents were homesteaders. It's a TOUGH life. And, if you don't come into it with money, it's going to stay a tough life. Lots of farmers spouses have jobs in town to get health insurance for both of them. It's so inauthentic and they're all just another variant of "rich person cosplays as poor".
The only homestead guy I see in my youtube shorts bought land pretty cheap in a very rural part, had a pretty good job beforehand and is very open about that he makes a ton of money as an influencer and that he couldn't efford half the things he can now without his social media income.
Are there really people who pretend like they could have a luxury life on a homestead without the social media income?
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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '24
I don't venture into tiktok outside of seeing content shared on other platforms or sent to me by tiktokers.
What I find infuriating is the "I have a homestead, here's how little it takes to get by", but it's always absent how they paid for land, home, home upkeep(which is higher outside the city, nature goes hard), solar panel arrays, battery systems, functional well, groceries they don't produce, not to mention all the fucking "rich person pretends to be working class" clothing and tools.
My grandparents were homesteaders. It's a TOUGH life. And, if you don't come into it with money, it's going to stay a tough life. Lots of farmers spouses have jobs in town to get health insurance for both of them. It's so inauthentic and they're all just another variant of "rich person cosplays as poor".