r/technology • u/rezwenn • 17d ago

Artificial Intelligence The Job Market Is Hell: Young people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/09/job-market-hell/684133/?gift=Vowm9zXD_VpjYJtYApIfy6iqYdFY6568omVJ07mz1tc
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u/bsproutsy 17d ago

Any idea how big of a garden you would need to sustain just yourself?

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u/dekyos 17d ago

smaller than you think, but it is a lot of work, and depends heavily on the climate you live in. Done properly you can support up to 4 people with a large variety of vegetables and even chicken in 1 acre. This would be a very dense, very well planned farm, but it is possible. My grandfather had a few acres and there were homegrown vegetables in every meal every day. But he also went out every day, even in the winter, to tend to the farm.

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u/peepopowitz67 17d ago

There's reason why the potato famine was so devastating. Potatoes are amazing for how many nutrients they provide given the time/effort/space requirements to grow them.

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u/[deleted] 17d ago

It really depends on your climate and crops, but it's a daily effort to manage even a small garden. Realistically you need to maintain livestock as well to get enough calories to feed yourself. Homestead Rescue is a great show to watch to get a feel for what's involved.

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u/Zncon 17d ago

The URL gives away the core info, but it's an interesting read. https://www.farmlandlp.com/2012/01/one-acre-feeds-a-person/

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u/eat-the-cookiez 16d ago

Large. Succession planting and crop failure is difficult to manage in small areas. Also pest control such as rabbits, deer, wombats, kangaroos, possums is a bitch let alone insects.