I think we will see movement in both directions. Homesteaders that find they are good at it can feed themselves and sell a few specialty products. As long as good healthy food is available to buy locally, many will shift away from homesteading to focusing on earning money instead.

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If a homesteader can produce specialty products to earn sats, they'd have to be sort of nuts to not focus on those products.

Sats are the apex commodity. Everyone will focus on earning them and everyone will demand them in payment.

No need to trade with any other goods, when you have 8 decimal places.

Eventually this seems will be the normal thing of shifting to specialize in a couple things, not just in food production.

If I am really good at growing vegetables, then I will likely grow a large market garden. Until I can count on getting healthy food that I eat elsewhere, I will raise a diverse range of crops and form relationships with other homesteaders. As this network grows, I see many people shift towards specialization.

I would say sats and soil are both apex commodities. Both are essential, we can not continue to 'export' soil and expect to last long. Some will focus on regenerating soil others will focus on earning and building around Bitcoin. Bitcoin and permaculture are the way forward. These movements overlap nicely and strengthen each other.

Yes, I see the reemergence of villages, towns, and neighborhoods, with specialty on that level.

That doesn't mean there wouldn't be more farmers, but that different farmers would focus on producing different things and buy from the others.