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2w ago

Anon becomes a shrimp farmer

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Shrimp > blockchain. Can't disagree with him there.
For that matter, shit is better than blockchain. Because at least shit is good for manure.
- Blockchain is the perfect solution to none of life's problems
  
  crypto currency is actually very useful when you need to buy meds that states dont want you to have. i dont know if blockchain is the best way to implement decentralized currencies (proof of work blockchain definitely isnt) but its what we got rn
  
  Buying drugs on the dark web
- I immediately took a look at the date. When I saw 2021, I said "Of course"
- you wouldn't download a shrimp
- You can’t eat blockchain
- I'm making bank farming shit.
  
  You should extract trace elements, then you can literally make gold from shit.

Anon discovers basic capitalism and lucked into an underserved market.
- Isn't this technically just commerce? At least until he does an IPO.
  
  No? He's acquiring capital (land, shrimp farm equipment, shromps) and using his labor to create something (more shromps) and selling his product for a profit.
  He owns the property, takes the investment risk, and keeps the profits. In theory he's competing in a market with other shrimp sellers but like I said from the sound of it the market is pretty thin so he gets to sell for a huge profit.
- Anon also doesn't know about all applicable regulations and is yet to be audited by the IRS.
  Anon discovered that you can earn money illegally until you're caught.
  
  You can also earn money after you're caught, but the protection money will eat most of your profits.
- And making the mistake of telling everyone. If everyone gets into it, it will stop being profitable. Though everyone will have cheap shrimp, so it's not a complete loss.
  I wonder how much it costs to maintain the farm and if it's worthwhile for small scale production for personal and friends/family.

I know a guy who bought a plot of almost worthless land an hour out of town fenced jt and bought a bunch of goats. We all thought he was insane.
10 years later he is retired at 40 because it turns out that certain communities will pay very good money for organic free range goat.
- There's multiple avenues how you can increase your wealth, if you have investment capital, and nothing goes wrong.
  
  Two very big ifs, sadly.
- If you've got the time and the energy and the stomach to handle birthing and raising live goats, it is very profitable... for the person who got a large low-interest loan to set up the farm. Significantly less so for the people doing the actual agricultural labor.

And then you realize far too late that stuff like this is strictly regulated and you forgot to comply with all the standards for product safety and hygiene and the state is going to rip your ass so far open that a truck can make a u-turn it it.
- Just do it in a red state and buy favor with the governor.
  
  That's expensive. My governor is an alfalfa farmer in a desert state where alfalfa is ~1% of GDP and >50% of water use, or something like that. He's already a grifter, so getting my own grift approved is going to be expensive.
- not anymore, how long until all that is doged out and we’re back to the jungle
  
  Weeks. Months at most.

Anon gets shut down by the department of agriculture
- Didn't Trump axe that one too?
  
  Unironically why small business goons love voting Republican.
  You can brew mutant shrimp in a vat in your garage and take them to a wholesaler in a leaky bag labeled "Wild Caught Magic Beans" then sell them at some absurd markup. When half your customer base gets food poisoning, you blame DEI, throw down a smoke bomb, and run off with your profits.

I tried the same thing with veal farming but little baby cows can't swim so good :|
- Give em a few generations, they'll learn.
  
  Now I am just imagining someone breeding cows to get some kind of aquatic cow species. Which would also make a great band name.

Jesse, we need to shrimp
- Jesse, we need to produce more Balenciaga

In America, just buy a load of chickens and do this with eggs.
- Silly goose, everyone knows shrimp is much more valuable than eg--
  Heavens to betsy, you're right
  
  Shrimps is bugs
- I've looked into it, unless there's a bird flu epidemic, you're not going to be profitable. It's literally more expensive for me to raise chickens than buy eggs from across the company.
  So I guess the solution is to spread bird flu?
  
  Be a true American and send the other farms infected chicken blankets.
  
  So I guess the solution is to spread bird flu?
  Corporate Approves.
  
  How expensive is it to raise chickens?

The one thing OP is missing is the type of shrimp. Don’t bother with food shrimp. That’s unprofitable! The real money is in fancy aquarium shrimp like these:
- I have never wanted an aquarium shrimp before, but I think you just found yourself a customer sir!

Relevant Mitchell &Webb sketch: Link

I bought all the equipment right from a Chinese seller for Tether
Had me right up until the end. Cryptobros literally do not understand how to do normal banking.

this is literally the plot of Forrest Gump (the book)

This is actually true. A former landlord of mine made a fuck ton of money by farming koi fish in the basement of a warehouse.

Basement Gump

This shrimp fresh?
- They're HOT and they're READY.

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