Grew up and are friends with farmers. Can confirm that most of them are at least upper, upper middle class.

  • AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works
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    24 days ago

    They are definitely up to their eyeballs in debt. Farm equipment isn’t cheap. Several of my uncles own a farm, it’s a middle class existence but it’s not a comfortable one.

    (The 4x4s and trucks are farm equipment and the RV was from the 70s and used for my uncle’s RAGBRAI team. No boats though.

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      23 days ago

      4x4s and trucks are farm equipment

      Yeah the '79 dodge pick up with a missing fender is farm equipment, the 2024 ford 350 plastered in maga stickers that has never touched dirt, is not.