/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>162348

Well we wouldn't be incorporated, we'd be an LLC at most. There are two problems; the first is subsistence vs profit, and the second is residency vs investment.

On the first matter, let's say we spend $1000/year on food (flour, rice, beans, spices, ammo for hunting and so on), $1000/year on internets, and $3000/year on mortgage payments and taxes, and sold 4 cattle per year for $6000 in revenues. Now, we've subsisted, and fed ourselves, secured our shelter and so on, but the profit is only $1000 for the whole year. Presumably people would be able to work off farm as well since raising cattle isn't particularly labor intensive, but it paints the picture well. Subsistence can be achieved without significant profits. Having people classified as employees would obviously not work well when their showing for the year was $200.

On the other matter, how do we decide who gets to live on the farm. We've got people in college who want to invest but only want to work the farm on summer break. How is that handled? What's their motivation to work when they're not being fed and sheltered by the product of that work? Obviously the value of the land will rise as a result of improving it, but how will that rise be reflected in the price of shares?

We don't want to go through all of this and be transformed by 'market forces,' into a run of the mill corporate farm. I think we all just want to live sustainably in peace off grid. That's the goal that has to be kept in mind.

Let's say someone was trying to abuse eminent domain to steal your land, /diy/. What tactics would you use to make the land unusable or too expensive to develop? How would you fight?

I think I would dig holes, and layer concrete, dirt, concrete, dirt, concrete, and have rebar and some huge stumps and rebar sticking vertically out of them, giving each stump a rebar and concrete armor, so that cutting through it would be trying to cut through metal, concrete, wood, and other goody layers. Then pile up dirt mounds around these stumps so that they wouldn't even know it was there until they tried to develop the land and remove the mounds you made. Put them all over the property. It'd cost them hundreds of thousands to remove, where as it would just take you a few days to put them up if you had access to a tractor, and a few thousand for the concrete and rebar.

Imagine trying to tear down those dirt mounds with a back hoe, only to discover huge concrete pylons blocking the mobility of your toothbucket. Then you spend hours clearing away the surrounding dirt carefully, only to find they're concrete pylons.

Then you try to cut through the concrete, only to discover metal underneath the concrete. It would be a nightmare.

TL;DR, I'd construct additional pylons. What would you do? I'm also highly open to ways to improve my plan. Pic related, it's a Czech Hedgehog.