10 minutes before my alarm goes off is an INCREDIBLY dangerous time for my decision-making

Because if he doesn’t farm he starves as well.

Which is why I added that instead of being a farmer, he could just join the mob of people that would have raided him if he had been a farmer. Why aren’t they all farming?

This is like saying, “Why can’t we all just pretend counterfeit money is real?” Sure, it sounds like a nice simple solution until suddenly everyone prints counterfeit money and expects to buy things that no one is producing now that an easier option has appeared.

If the only options for the farmer are let people starve or get raided, why would he choose to be a farmer then? Seems more likely he’d do something else or join the mob rather than become a farmer in the first place.