I had this crazy novel idea over thanksgiving, which I told to two biologists who work at the university here. We should be using biology to make businesses that people can copy and move out of cities. That's when I got a little lecture about "we all have to do things we don't like" which was because biologists only study what the government gives grants for.
Uhhh. I'm so frustrated over that conversation... Literally the smartest people in the room, possibly the two highest IQ people in the Texas, and they could not understand anything I was saying.
For a while I worked with a community garden group that focused on "urban gardening". A lot of people are now kind of trapped in apartments, but you can grow trays of micro greens for pretty cheap and bougie restaurants will buy them. There's ways to keep quail, rabbits, etc. You can string old bottles throughout your windows to create DIY hydroponic setups that will give your family fresh greens. I'd be curious to hear more about your ideas.
"We all have to do things we don't like" is justifying why they allow themselves to be rode like a horse. If you just wear the saddle, one day the powers that be might give you a lump of sugar. Meanwhile you're offensive to them by even suggesting that you want to run free.
It's a huge problem, and it's by design. It captures our best and brightest and neutralizes the threat they represent even better than the Soviet era gulags. They will fight to keep the bars of their cages in place 🙄
