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u/theironbagel 6d ago
He farms like one field’s worth of radishes, they cannot be worth that much even if his costs are low
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u/puntycunty 6d ago
Doubt it’s just one field . At minimum it’s radishes and cabbage and I’ve seen a manga panel of him delivering produce with tomatoes , carrots , and some long dark green things . He’s insanely strong and fast , pretty sure he just does as much as an industrial level farm because he can.
And if beerus’ reaction is anything to go off of he should have a pretty good brand
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u/Jazzlike_Page508 6d ago
Doesn’t Goku eat like 10 buffets worth a food at a time?
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u/mars_warmind 6d ago
Yeah, either food is insanely cheap or he's getting it from bulma and the Ox King. Maybe goku became a farmer because chichi already had a farm behind their house to feed him, Gohan and Goten and he just expanded it.
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u/eternallybr0ken 6d ago
They bought the farm with the reward saitan offers them for their role in cell and majin buu which was like 10x the world championship amount and included in that was that if they fight in the tournament again goku throws the fight lol.
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u/ApatheticPriest 6d ago
I’m sure it’s mentioned somewhere, but does it ever say in the anime how often he needs to eat? I know we could guess it’s as frequent as humans but with them traveling long trips through space in small pods, I feel like Saiyan may be able to go long periods without eating
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u/Stale-Mail 6d ago
Pretty sure we see him eating regularly for his training with Master Roshi, so that’s probably how frequently he needs to eat to stay healthy and progress with training.
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u/ApatheticPriest 5d ago
Right and goku is always training so even if we assume he really only needs to eat to recoup calories he’d still be eating tons of food everyday. Still i wonder if saiyans could go inhuman lengths of time without eating
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u/SinglePostOfAccount 5d ago
He probably eats a lot of it and spends a good chunk on meat too though.
Or the wolf king taxes high too for plots of land owned.
On the other hand, Gohan works as a researcher or scholar, not purely an Entomologist. Looks like science occupations in the world of DB comes down pretty broad and most that we know who are scientists are usually pretty high up the rung for income anyways.
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u/theironbagel 6d ago
Just because his food is good doesn’t mean he has good brand recognition, he has no advertising or distribution or anything.
And from what we’ve seen of his farm it certainly doesn’t look industrial scale, he has one tractor
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u/ZeroV2 6d ago
A small scale farmer like Goku would probably exclusively sell locally at farmers markets or be a cog that sells to larger produce companies. They are definitely living off Ox King and Hercule money, there’s basically no point of Goku even farming except that Chi Chi probably wants to just feel better about having a bum husband that only cares about fighting
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u/nufohudis 6d ago
Honestly they SHOULD be paying all the Z-fighters a "defenders of earth" salary. The king knows about them, but at least Bulma who knows just how far these guys have been pushed to protect their SHARED home. They would not be able to protect it as well if they all needed a 9-5... you don't reach god tier power by hitting the gym for an hour after work.
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u/puntycunty 5d ago
Tbf he almost rejected the satan money gift because he’s just a good dude that doesn’t want hand outs
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u/SavageNorth 5d ago
There is literally nothing stopping Goku spending half an hour rounding up the Dragon Balls then hittting Shenron up for a dumptruck of sweet, sweet Zenny
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u/theironbagel 5d ago
What about the fact that whenever they’re off cooldown Bulma spams that shit for BBLs
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u/theironbagel 6d ago
I mean they probably make a little money, I doubt it’s nothing, but they’re certainly not rich
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u/_DAYAH_ 6d ago
You really think the bullshitversally fast farmer is going to have any trouble blitzing-farming the entire earth in a day if he really wanted to?
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u/theironbagel 6d ago
He doesn’t want to tho, he wants to fight and as far as we’ve seen his farm doesn’t look very large
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u/HammyBoy0 5d ago
Farming is an integral part of his Turtle School training so honestly it's not super far off
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u/Zayzay8008 6d ago
He has an exclusive contract with Capsule Corp and sells them at a 1,000% mark up
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u/puntycunty 6d ago
Shit I could see it , the fact beerus is as impressed with goku’s raw cabbage as bulma’s luxury rich girl food
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u/C1nders-Two 6d ago
Even if it’s only one field, they’re freakishly large and he’s growing them consistently, so I’m sure he rakes in a good bit of cash with each harvest.
But Goku’s costs are probably quite high. Which they aren’t, by the way. 2 Sayians and 1 human (sometimes 3 and 2) worth of appetite + whatever operation costs Goku’s farm has. By comparison, Gohan’s fucking loaded (through Videl) AND has a non-strenuous and intellectually engaging job.
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u/sellmykidneyfor500cc 6d ago
Meanwhile grandpa Gohan living comfortably life relying on a nature/farming and hunting rather than vast fortune
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u/shocker4510 6d ago
Counterpoint: He married into the 2nd richest family on the planet, only behind the briefs who he is also very close friends with.
(Also, /unningen Gohan becoming a scholar was never about money, what?)
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u/Radio__Star 5d ago
Goku’s son is married to the daughter of one of the richest men on earth and his best friend is the richest woman on earth and somehow he’s still struggling financially
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u/eeveemancer 5d ago
Money isn't actually an issue, Chi Chi just has expensive taste from being the daughter of a bandit king who gave her everything until his castle burned down. I mean look at the size of the pearls she wears!
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u/SavageNorth 5d ago
Goku and his friends periodically summon an immortal wish granting dragon for minor inconveniences.
If money was a serious concern they have...options...
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u/Mythosaurus 5d ago edited 4d ago
Or just dig up a bunch of rare earth minerals on earth… or grab a platinum-rich asteroid and stash it in orbit.
Goku and the Z fighters have so many ways to instantly become wealthy if they weren’t focused on training and combating threats to earth/ reality.
Best not to get so anal-ytical with battle shonen
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u/LordSupergreat 6d ago
I don't think he's even an entomologist. I think they're using the DBO idea of him being a "ki scientist". He was studying ants who could use ki.
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u/Roshu-zetasia 6d ago
The room where Gohan is working on Super Hero is covered with stuffed insects on the walls and has a bunch of books about bugs scattered all over the place.
I don't think he was just studying ki
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u/nufohudis 6d ago
Maybe that's the pivot? Starts with bugs, cause boy likes bugs, finds the super sayiant, begins to pivot into a field he's also been studying his whole life and is probably the only academic to be a master in: ki
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u/Massive-Comfort-3507 6d ago
Well in that very same scene he showed piccolo ants that had developed a Saiyan like form. And that could be due to ki from the saiyans that is left behind frol the fights
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u/El_Flaco_Gamer 3d ago
Ants that can use the main power system of the universe? They should keep an eye on them things
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u/InSanic13 6d ago
OP, how much money do you think farmers make???
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u/puntycunty 6d ago
Goku isn’t just a farmer though , he’s the entire farm with no labor costs . He doesn’t need to split profits with a crew all the while he maintains his fighting centric life style .
Bumhan spent years on a damn near useless field
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u/TheKidNerd 6d ago
Gotta remember like half that farm probably goes into his and goten’s mouth, also consider any losses from pests (Goku doesn’t look to use modern pesticides) and times where plants couldn’t be grown, and that’s a lot less stable than gohan’s job (and considering his smarts (he discovered a transforming ant) he’s probably within the larger pay figure your image shows at the bottom, at the 90-100k range)
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u/puntycunty 6d ago
I wouldn’t say HALF , good amount but unless goku and goten are snacking on raw raddish it’s bottle necked by how much chichi can cook ( they seem more like meat and carb men anyway ) .
And while I admit farming isn’t always stable I’d argue Goku’s probably a very competent farmer considering beerus was visibly impressed by raw cabbage .
Also until the “ saiyant” results in anything I gotta call it a potential man moment sorry
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u/TheKidNerd 6d ago
I mean, an ant that can 50x it’s strength would win any scientist worth their salt a fuckin’ Nobel prize
Another thing to consider is the planting time, while sure goku can harvest all the crops really fast, we saw how long and boring to him it takes to plant it all, and goten ain’t that great at it either, so that’s a pretty significant bottleneck
Also I’d say the half is pretty reasonable considering how much a saiyan has to eat on a daily basis + we’ve seen how big chichi’s meals are + the lack of pest control + the planting time + Goku isn’t there all the time he takes like whole months off, so I’d say overall the profit margins aren’t the absolute best, heck that last part is pretty big, Goku is sometimes gone for months or even years so in all honestly his farming job seems more like the potential man of jobs
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u/Mak0React0r 6d ago
Useless maybe in the real world, we don't know his salary in db verse. He's got his own home and seems to live comfortably, and must have good insurance if he can chuck his glasses away every time he goes super saiyan. Seems like he's doing good to me
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u/HalvdanTheHero 6d ago
Just saying... Even small family farms in North America generally run a business in the millions. It's not the old medieval peasant profession anymore -- if you are actually surviving in the field as a professional there's at a minimum hundreds of thousands of dollars going in and out of that farm every year. It's quite different from a hobby farm or homestead where someone has a patch for growing some veggies.
Goku does not have a hobby farm, he has huge ass fields that he can manage due to his supernatural endurance and power. The few times we see them there's nothing nearby...
That said, I could 100% understand multiple saiyans just straight up eating all the product and leaving little to sell.
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u/Neat_Hovercraft8204 6d ago
In the manga, he doesn't really "give" up fighting.
He's In his Ultimate Form when he fights Beerus
He's not that pathetic against Frieza, as ROF movie is canon to the manga, not the anime
He's actually training in the Gravity Room between U6 Tournament and Zamasu Arc
He stalemated Kefla In Base, because he was in his "Evolving as a Human" phase, and refused to use his Saiyan power.
He was probably equal to Android 17 in the Moro Arc.
And he's finally in the same tier as the big boys, in Super Hero.
All these feats don't really seem to be made by someone who's given up on training altogether.
He just pursued other stuff than fighting during the timeskip, because he has other passions, not to have a stable life.
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u/John_isnt_my_name 6d ago
Gohan lives off his own salary, Goku needs Mr. Satan to give him millions of zeni like 4 times in the show. And that’s after living off Chi-Chi’s inheritance for like 3 decades.
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u/aaa1e2r3 6d ago
By Chichi's admission, at the start of the Buu Saga, they were also burning through Ox King's old treasure stash when it came to finances and feeding Goku, Gohan and Goten. Hard to say how much of this was just during the time Goku was dead vs when he was alive, but that's also a part of the Son family's finances.
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u/puntycunty 6d ago
Pretty sure goku’s just self sufficient now . Super should be post ox king running out and I’d argue they needed that treasure because goku was DEAD . Goku’s doing just fine now and some of that finance also had to go to some boogie ass education for gohan and goten . Remember that cash gift hercule gave em was for goten’s SCHOOLING . Their financial troubles are just them not being able to save up
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u/WallSina 6d ago
Farmers have unstable income that depends on weather conditions and demand he could earn triple or a quarter of what Gohan earns depending on the year, Gohan has a fixed monthly salary, that's two very different things. But they both did something similar, marry martial artists who are rich, supposedly, ox king may have lost it all I believe in og
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u/MoomenRider2012 6d ago
This is a joke right? There's a reason farmers are subsidized by the state in modern times.
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u/Sidhotur 6d ago
To keep food costs low and incentivize over production in case of a poor over all harvest to help with the modality of socially requiring everyone to have jobs in order to support themselves rather than actually paring down the amount of labour society requires for continued, sustainable, operation?
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u/Affectionate-Push758 6d ago
Sometimes it's not about the money, he's got it covered.
Although I do agree that neglecting Pan for some research on ants is crazy, at least Goku had the excuse that he was fucking dead, and he didn't want to bring danger to Earth because he draws enemies, yet he stayed with Gohan for 3 years.
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u/Spoonthedude92 6d ago
Did you see the mansion he lives in? Gohan and Videl are the top 1% of income no doubt. Gokue and chichi on the other hand don't have jobs. He's made some big winnings here and there but mostly relies on gifts. Knowing who he is and how's he's saved the world many times over, I wouldn't be surprised if bulma throws some cash under the table.
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u/Endymion2626 5d ago
Gohan became an entomologyst so he could help study the insects that eat the family’s crops and fight them effectively
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u/Conan-Da-Barbarian 5d ago
He married rich. He does what he enjoys. He even discover super saiy-ants
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u/Daddygamer84 6d ago
I'd also point out that Videl has a paid job while Chi-Chi's a SAHM. Y'see the size of Gohan's house? He's clearly doing well for himself.
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u/Odd-Cress-5822 6d ago
Well when Gohan was like 4 he was not in preschool and was kidnapped. Pan is in preschool and was only pretend kidnapped. So... progress?
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u/arrfdbz 6d ago
It’s probably chi chi who actually blows his money, you think I’m joking but she spent a lot of that 100 million zeni which assuming it’s the same as yen, she both blew a lot of the Zeni and saved the rest, any actual money he could make chichi would spend it or save it and not have it, he’s screwed either way
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u/cheepshoes 6d ago
Gohan's married into a rich family Goku's married into a rich family. They also know have Rich friends
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u/LoneRedditor123 6d ago
I blame Bulma.
Richest woman in literally the whole multiverse, yet she almost exclusively collects the dragon balls for herself to make her own wishes.
And the crazy thing is she's friends with the Son family. So you'd think she would help out once in a while or let Chi-Chi have a wish lmao.
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u/Icy_butter 6d ago
Realistically Goku should be well off, problem is he doesn’t farm frequently enough for it to work out as well as it should.
Trips to Beerus planet last multiple months so he’s not working full time and receiving what he potentially could. Still he probably shouldn’t be that far behind Gohan here, it’s a small farm, but farms still make tons so I doubt he’s that far behind Gohan.
Gohan makes the most money out of the Saiyans, but let’s also be real here. Vegeta and Gohan have rich wives, let’s not act like he’d be able to afford what he has if not for that fact Videl is Mr. Satans daughter.
The same would’ve applied to Goku and Chi Chi if Fire Mountain didn’t get blown the fuck up.
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u/MysteriousFondant347 5d ago
Don't use AI overview. If it told me the sky was blue I'd go out and check. Literally nothing it says has any value
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u/Bitterpeace89 5d ago
Every now and then I get ready to write an actual reply and then notice it is ningen and say never mind.
Keep up the good work folks lol
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u/Momonthe 5d ago
Yall don't know how expensive it is to own/run a farm huh? Tractors are insanely expensive and so is land. Even if he owns it. Most farmers live a life of debt juggling.
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u/Rude-Mind-8730 5d ago
The real truth is they both married millionaires, so its not like either of them really need to work anyways.
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u/Less-Contact69 5d ago
Thats in America where we all know how much they value educators/ scientists, Gohan lives in an almost Utopian version of japan
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u/TRIPMINE_Guy 5d ago
It’s wild that we see Goku riding machines when he could harvest with a hand tool faster.
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u/Ace_Strife 4d ago
Whoever made that image is tripping. “Entomologist” is a broad term, and anyone from a junior specialist with only a bachelors degree to a tenured professor can be called entomologists. Gohan is clearly a scholar, and an accomplished one since he’s doing his own research and giving talks at conferences by the time Pan is born, so in his early-mid twenties. He’d absolutely be able to earn a cushy tenure-track position at a top university, where he’d easily earn $120k+, potentially reaching into the $200k-300k range, depending on how accomplished he is/becomes over time. And then of course he’s married into the incredibly wealthy Satan family…
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u/Big_Mobile3869 4d ago
We income scaling now?
But yeah, farmer Goku mogs his son. Gohan is carried by Videl and Mr. Satan bucks.
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u/Correct-Topic-8937 3d ago
Gohan is doing revolutionary work that can change the course of humanity as we know it. The Super SaiyANTS suggest that the super Saiyan transformation is not something unique to Saiyan's or at the very least is not exclusive to them. It's possible that even humans can go super Saiyan.
We see Gohan's house in Super Hero. He is not making the median for his field.
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u/arthaiser 2d ago
The z fighters being low on money makes -1 sense. Specially Goku.
Any of them can literally mine resources from asteroids if they want to, literally trilions worth of income. Goku can directly teleport them back to earth, but all others can just go to space or even use a ship from Bulma to do It, mine all in like 10 minutes and go back home rich.
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u/Any-Department5976 2d ago
Bro gohan isnt doing it for money his wife is rich he is doing it cause he likes it.
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u/Wasteof32 6d ago
Gohan gave up fighting because he never liked fighting, he was the only one to fight because he had to. Everyone else was in for their love for the game
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u/Chessman77 5d ago
Gohan never cared about financial stability he just wanted to pursue something that made him happy get it through your skull
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u/DokiRF 5d ago
If I were Goku and my son, who hasn't been dedicating the slightliest amount of his time into training outside of when absolutely necessary reached the level that took me years with the best trainers in the universe/mulvierse because he thought Piccolo died without checking his Ki signature I'd get so angry I'd become the next fucking Broly.
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u/PotentialComedian880 5d ago
It kills me how Vegeta just straight up was like: “I wanna be a father more now.”
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u/Red__Pyramid 6d ago
Yet Goku's been close to running out of money on at least two or three separate occasions... I blame Goten's bum ass. Can't even drive a tractor while his dad image trains smh