>>81574274All the truly wealthy people I know have oil rights which they lease and then tons of scattered timber which they pay to have managed, then pasture and sneedbean land they lease to farmers. Stocks crashing would no doubt hurt but they have enough land and physical stuff that they would still be better off than the 99%.
Really blows my mind though. Acreage in the triple or even quadruple digit range. But they get a business management, lawyer, or medical degree and live like a cuck in the city/suburb. If I were born rich I would go to an agricultural university program and larp my ass off on a hobby farm. I might at best break even, but what a life. Breeding animals, culling, thinning, literally terraforming. Even if all you do is conservation with occasional selective timber harvest it's still seen as a noble way of living even though conservation is just clearcutting a few micro prairies and seeding with rye. Put up a feeder and it's comfy hunting. Coffee and bourbon, up in a stand, small heater, ebook, just wait for something to walk into the shooting gallery. People will actually pay you for this too if you have a couple cabins and build a sense of mystique around it, exclusive hunting club. If nothing else it's useful just because you can make friends with the upper strata of your local area.
The amount of people I know who go a whole season not even killing one animal makes me suspect conservation is actually totally optional. If you go all season never once shooting that meant you were just drinking, riding four wheelers, and sitting by the fireplace talking shit with your bros the whole time.