Saying that farmers were made obsolete kind of glosses over the real reason that they were forced into cities: enclosure. Land that they were previously free to

Saying that farmers were made obsolete kind of glosses over the real reason that they were forced into cities: enclosure. Land that they were previously free to use for subsistence farming was taken and combined into larger landholdings. Had they been properly compensated for the loss of the land, they would have been less desperate to rush to cities.