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[–] [email protected] 5 points 33 minutes ago

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:

[–] [email protected] 3 points 25 minutes ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Anon gets shut down by the department of agriculture

[–] M1nds3nd 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Didn't Trump axe that one too?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 30 minutes ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

not anymore, how long until all that is doged out and we’re back to the jungle

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 minutes ago

took days for the faa to get fucked

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Just do it in a red state and buy favor with the governor.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 38 minutes ago (1 children)

Just gotta cut him in on a share of the profits. He’ll be your best friend in that case!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 29 minutes ago (1 children)

Peter Thiel's "Zero to One" teaches that the best business is an iron-fisted monopoly.

Far from cutting you in, the governor is more likely to break your kneecaps and burn down your nascent storefront.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 minutes ago

Peter Thiel may have been successful in business but he’s no economist. For a government official like the governor, there’s way more wealth to be gained by encouraging competition than suppressing it.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

In America, just buy a load of chickens and do this with eggs.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago

Be a true American and send the other farms infected chicken blankets.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

So I guess the solution is to spread bird flu?

Corporate Approves.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Silly goose, everyone knows shrimp is much more valuable than eg--

Heavens to betsy, you're right

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 28 minutes ago

Now I just need to find a pod to live in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 58 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 minutes ago

Bugs taste like shrimp

[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I tried the same thing with veal farming but little baby cows can't swim so good :|

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Give em a few generations, they'll learn.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (2 children)

Noe I am just imagining someone breeding cows to get some kind of aquatic cow species. Which would also make a beat band name.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago (3 children)

I wonder how manatee tastes...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Fishy steak

edit: CONJECTURE!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 48 minutes ago

Like a tough porkchop soaked in swamp water. Those damn aquatic speed bumps aren't even good for eatin'.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

You monster!

[–] [email protected] 64 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 27 minutes ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

There's multiple avenues how you can increase your wealth, if you have investment capital, and nothing goes wrong.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Yeah, I also know a goat farmer in my neighborhood.
In the same 10 years, she faced an expensive lawsuit from someone who wanted her land, an epidemic that destroyed her herd, animals dying from people feeding them the wrong plants through the fence, Covid forcing her to close the farm to visitors, and other hardships.

She's barely out of the woods now, but definitely much worse off than if she had invested the money into stocks.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago

Yup, stocks are almost zero effort and have an expected return of 10-12% long term. Everything else is a job and is dependent on how good you are at managing it.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago

Jesse, we need to produce more Balenciaga

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