When investors have excess capital, it is inevitable that they will seek a place to put that capital.
For instance, imagine a town with two investors and a single general store. Each investor has ten million dollars. What are they going to do? They can’t invest twenty million dollars in a general store!
Maybe there’s also some stocks they can buy. Like, three stocks. That’s no good either.

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… and yet, as much as this perpetuation of verse fuels the romantic image of poetry farming held by the public, it can only have little to do with the day-to-day motivations of your average poetry farmer; for them, profit must inevitably be king.

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any modern farmer will grow haiku with a 5-5-5 syllable pattern, ideally rhymed—

An old, silent pond
Behold: “frog” has spawned
It jumps. It is gone.

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In these days, after the so-called “non-curvilinear revolution” of modern farming, the ideal limerick is a balanced 9 syllables per line, …

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Thy love, love, leaves me in the lurch
While I still lack in coin and merch.

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The original poem, of course, rhymed “good” and “blood;” this is, however, contrary to updated scientific practice and the modern standardized World Bank rhyming dictionary. The recommended resolution, as illustrated here, is to substitute an alternative rhyme, however anti-thematic, such as “bud,” “dud,” “thud,” or “flood.”

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the digimodern poetry movement is an attempt to farm poetry, not in the earth, but on the blockchain—to, as the founder of the movement put it, “rifle through the earth’s pockets while we’re stabbin’ ‘er.”

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Each year, there is a chance that the water-ghosts will come for someone early.
Each year, for each farmer, roll (2d6-1).
If the total is higher than their highest step on any path, they’re fine. Otherwise, the water-ghosts have come for them …

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