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>You actually think it's a good thing that millions of people spend their time this way! I think you're putting words in riskable's mouth. What the comment act

by cr1895 10y ago

>You actually think it's a good thing that millions of people spend their time this way! I think you're putting words in riskable's mouth. What the comment actually said is that you were vastly underestimating the disruption in comparing it to milkmen, etc. There wasn't any judgment whether it was a good thing or not.

bko 10y ago
The percentage of Americans employed as farmers in the US far exceeded that of trucker drivers. Yes there was disruption, but those people didn't permanently go on to be the underclass unemployed of society. They and their descendants went on to more fruitful activities. The thing is, at the time, you couldn't imagine what those activities would be. [0] http://www.usda.gov/factbook/art/fig31.jpg http://www.usda.gov/factbook/art/fig31.jpg
- cullenking 10y ago
  Oh, you mean all the farmers and factory workers that made up the Midwest, which are now overwhelmingly trump supporters, largely because of the destruction of all economic opportunity in their region?
  - refurb 10y ago
    Huh? The US moved away from farming as a key employer what? 80 years ago? It has nothing to do with Trump.
    - cullenking 10y ago
      Sorry, I should have reserved my comment for a day when I am not recovering from a sinus infection :) Farming, in the midwest at least, was a dying but still widely practiced profession up into the early 80's. This also includes meat farming. The farm consolidation really got into the swing of things in the mid 80's. Add in the decimation of the auto and steel (and supporting industries) and you see a period from 1960 - 1990 that had an unprecedented level of people forced out of work due to automation and lost jobs. The Trump comment was tossed in because it's been easy to forget about this stuff as a coastal living millenial, and the recent Trump phenomenon has brought it back to the forefront. Sorry for the initial snarky comment!
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by cr1895 10y ago

bko 10y ago

The percentage of Americans employed as farmers in the US far exceeded that of trucker drivers. Yes there was disruption, but those people didn't permanently go on to be the underclass unemployed of society. They and their descendants went on to more fruitful activities. The thing is, at the time, you couldn't imagine what those activities would be. [0] http://www.usda.gov/factbook/art/fig31.jpg http://www.usda.gov/factbook/art/fig31.jpg

cullenking 10y ago
Oh, you mean all the farmers and factory workers that made up the Midwest, which are now overwhelmingly trump supporters, largely because of the destruction of all economic opportunity in their region?
- refurb 10y ago
  Huh? The US moved away from farming as a key employer what? 80 years ago? It has nothing to do with Trump.
  - cullenking 10y ago
    Sorry, I should have reserved my comment for a day when I am not recovering from a sinus infection :) Farming, in the midwest at least, was a dying but still widely practiced profession up into the early 80's. This also includes meat farming. The farm consolidation really got into the swing of things in the mid 80's. Add in the decimation of the auto and steel (and supporting industries) and you see a period from 1960 - 1990 that had an unprecedented level of people forced out of work due to automation and lost jobs. The Trump comment was tossed in because it's been easy to forget about this stuff as a coastal living millenial, and the recent Trump phenomenon has brought it back to the forefront. Sorry for the initial snarky comment!
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