Comments by "Pob" (@goodlookinouthomie1757) on "The wealthy think they’re different" video.

Richard you can't just train a farmer like you would a bus driver. Our farm has had plenty of apprentices over the years and most of them have soft hands and no heart to be out at all times of the day and in all weathers doing cold, dirty, thankless work. With all due respect to these young people who have all been keen, intelligent and with a good work ethic... about 10% of them are even capable of farming. Farmers are by and large bred, not trained.
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I'm a farmer and these kinds of videos remind me of an important thing. When people like Richard make videos about something in which I am an expert, it always sounds laughably misinformed. So I now bring a significant amount of skepticism to videos on topics about which I am ignorant. I'm sure there is an "X effect" name for this but it eludes me at the present moment.
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This guy might know about theoretical economics but it's clear he does not understand the first thing about farming. Or any job in which you actually produce or build real world benefit. Using the point that farmers wear expensive outdoor clothing to prove their privilege? Do you use the same argument against a carpenter who buys a £700 power drill when yours was £49.99 off the shelf at B&Q? Keep your videos to what you understand my friend.
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He correctly makes the point that most farmers are tenants. However, most of these tenant farmers have themselves passed that business down several generations. You can't just train people to farm like you would a plumber. Farming is a whole way of life... by and large you have to be born and bred into it to understand it. My family are farmers (owners) and we've had a few apprentices over the years... young people who are very bright and keen to get into the industry... but most of them arrive with soft hands and no heart for the more physically challenging aspects of the job. Like working your way up a field repairing a fence in the snow because it has to be done right away to keep livestock from escaping... shovelling grain in the bottom of a hot dusty silo... or shoving a sheep's guts back into her a***-hole after she has prolapsed (non farmers reading this, look it up when you've finished your breakfast). Furthermore I think a farmer is quite entitled to buy the best outdoor clothing he can get in order to do these jobs.
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It would be so easy for us to sell our land and retire as millionaires. God knows we'd live a much easier life than we do trying to make a profit out of our average sized farm in the Midlands. What most people can't comprehend is that a farmer gets up and does this job with no thought whatsoever about his asset wealth. To realise that wealth would be to liquidise his land, which is simply unimaginable to any farmer.
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@GGTutor1 I know the one you mean, but it's not that. It subtly different. This is when, for example, a teacher laps up every word the media say about all sorts of topics, but when an article about education appears he reads it and knows that most of it is nonsense. So then he starts to wonder if everything about topics he is not an expert in is as much rubbish. Farmers watch these videos and feel the same, I can assure you first hand.
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Most people can't see the difference between millions of quid in a bank account and millions of quid tied up in productive farmland.
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@hardgrafter2787 Implicit in that is human population reduction.
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@marcusmoonstein242 I'm very familiar with the Rittenhouse affair. There were previous flashpoints for me quite a bit earlier than that. The Covington boys for example. Or the reporting of the Charlottesville demonstration. These are slightly different case because they all revolve around race and as soon as there is a racial aspect to any story you already know which side the media are going to come down on before you hear a word about it.
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@jonathanpearce3927 All this talk about rich greedy farmers. But when the land gets sold to pay IHT bills, all that will happen is a transfer to even richer, more elite individuals and the result is more of British land in even fewer hands. The age old story of weaponising the masses against a politically inconvenient class using the tools of envy and resentment.
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@corvus1238 I guarantee you bring home a higher salary than I do.
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@corvus1238 British farmers can hardly make a living on their produce because we import cheaper food from around the world. I hope I don't need to warn you of the folly that is assuming this will always be the case - especially with our reckless approach to foreign policy at the moment. I mean of course we could sell to someone else but it won't be anything to do with farming experience. You will find it extremely difficult to find someone who is not already a farmer to manage and grow food on this land nearly as effectively as we do. The land will be sold to another farmer, but not one who is better at the job. It will be someone who is far, far richer then me. The result is the further conglomeration of farmland into fewer and fewer hands, which does not affect your personal situation other than perhaps giving the illusion of some cathartic relief for your class resentment. In fact it likely moves the land even further out of reach of any ordinary person who wishes to get into the industry. It hurts the small farmer while benefiting the ultra wealthy and doing absolutely nothing for the population in general. For the record I think that inheritance tax is a moral obscenity on it's face and nobody, no matter how wealthy, should pay it.
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@chrisjudd-uc7sh Who mentioned genes?
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