Nowadays you can't buy anything without then being asked to provide a rating of a company's performance on a five-star scale.

In the next article, I refocus on the game itself, talk about scale as an infrastructure issue, cover the final two steps, and discuss whether or not to build or buy, using off-the-shelf components.

The way to make self-sufficiency work on a small scale is to resist the temptation to buy a tractor and other expensive laborsaving devices.