kiwi pom
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- canterbury NZ
"Asset rich farmers", this pisses me off, so for generations the same farm has toiled away scrimping and saving and now we are penalised for out efforts FU , i might as well bang out 15 kids and live of the sub - of having kids. LET ME BE CLEAR no one goes to the supermarket and looks at the price of milk or bread they just pick it up if it was 50p more as long as the one they walk out of the shop with is the lowest they are happy.
Why would it pee you off? If grandad worked his arse off and eventually the farm ended up in the grandchild's hands, then they have done very well out of someone else's work.
Plenty of bigger farms today are there because workers grafted their whole lives to make it successful, they were paid of course but certainly didn't end up with the same level of wealth.
Sitting on an asset worth several million does change your life. In all probability you're not going to sell any of it BUT if things go to s**t you have a good back up plan. Selling just a bit of land can get you out of a lot of holes.
Even if you're only making the same as a minimum wage employee, your problems are very different to theirs.