Owen is optimistic about the farm. He needs Luke for only one more year.
Luke is realistic. He doesn't have high hopes for the farm. Luke wants out:
LUKE: And if these new droids do work out, I want to transmit my application to the Academy this year.
Owen's face becomes a scowl, although he tries to suppress it.
OWEN: You mean the next semester before harvest?
LUKE: Sure, there're more than enough droids.
OWEN: Harvest is when I need you the most. Only one more season. This year we'll make enough on the harvest so I'll be able to hire some more hands. And then you can go to the Academy next year.
As you know, things don't work out as Owen predicts.
"If the farmer is borrowing to meet the exigencies of a so-called bad year, his distress is temporary, and he is likely to square himself during the next good year; but if his distress is due to the progressive deterioration of his farm, he will be unable to extricate himself. Such indebtedness is hopeless. The increasing weight of accumulated interest on the loan and the decreasing productivity of the land seal the fate of the landowner.- "Rome's Fall Reconsidered", by Vladimir G. Simkhovitch
As you know, things didn't work out well for ancient Rome.
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