I said this on one of the reaper threads, but want to expand by telling you about my neighbor's pulling tractor. Thing cost him a fortune to build. Then he had to buy a double axle trailer to haul it to the tractor pulls. Of course he quickly learned he needed a bigger truck. He couldnt afford to have two trucks, so now he gets to and from work in a gas guzzler big enough to haul that monster tractor of his. He does not farm. He doesnt even grow a garden. The only thing that big ass tractor does other than go the the tractor pulls is to pull my little tractor out the mud now and then.
I asked him if there is any money in tractor pulls. Nope, the prizes are tiny compared to the expense. So you do it for the trophy? That and the bragging rights.
Not commenting on the particular pepper at all. Nor the people involved. Just the weirdness of people renaming peppers created by others.
Maybe I am ignorant of the seed business. Been seed saving and trading for maybe a decade, but only started selling last year. Seems to me that the cost of growing in isolation and the labor of growing, harvesting, drying, cleaning, counting, packaging, and shipping doesn't make it a hugely profitable business. Sure, if you happen to get the latest title holder you will have shit tons of sales that year. But over all, I really dont see the dollar signs some folk seem to see.
So I gotta figure other than the innate reward of looking at a thing (tractor or new pepper) and saying ye baby, I did that. Other than the reward that comes with creating something, the main thing a person gets is bragging rights. Thing is, if you are gonna take credit for someone elses creation those bragging rights can not possibly be all that rewarding.
Look at the new tractor I stole. Nope, doesnt seem fulfilling at all.
