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Hahaha, yeah there is a tendency for you to move out of the capitalist ratrace to your nice, peaceful farm, and then just voluntarily implement the same industrialised capitalistic nightmare from which you originally sought to escape. But you don't have to do it that way! You can break free of your programming!
I'm more of a collector than an optimiser, so I seem to spend most of my time digging stuff up and taking it to the museum, or catching all them fancy rare fish. I work harder at Stardew Valley than I do at my actual job, I think.
Which quickly devolves into figuring out optimum strategies for acquiring resources and expanding the farm which completely ignoring the social aspect until the farm starts looking after itself.
At least in any of my playthroughs!