> The occupations of an American farmer’s descendents would not make sense. We might say to the farmer of old, “you are the last person in your family’s thousan

> The occupations of an American farmer’s descendents would not make sense. We might say to the farmer of old, “you are the last person in your family’s thousand year lineage who will ever farm the land,” and he would say: “well what will my descendents do?” And we’ll say “well, they are mortgage brokers, web designers, yoga teachers, tech support, Airbnb hosts” and he would say, “What? None of those make sense. No one could make a living doing that. It’s impossible.” As are the driving directions on the phone in your pocket. To some extent, this is selling the "farmer of old" short. Some of those occupations are just new names for old jobs: An AirBnB host is basically an innkeeper. I'm not sure how far back you would have to go to find people who weren't familiar with the idea, but you would end up somewhere in prehistory. The same goes for rideshare drivers who are essentially coachmen, or before then drovers. Once you got past the unfamiliarity of the tools involved, web design shouldn't seem particularly foreign to anyone owning and running a printing press that produces flyers, handbills, broadsides, pamphlets, posters, and newspapers (not to mention the innumerable advertisements peppered throughout). Small presses and their owner/operators have been a mainstay of American agriculture for generations. Tech support is a function that should be familiar in a manufacturing context to any tool & die maker of course, but more relevant would be the agricultural extension agent that is extremely familiar to any American farmer. The job is literally tech support for the adoption of agricultural tech of all sorts. And anyone who doesn't think American farmers would recognize a mortgage broker when they saw one is suffering from a deeply ahistorical and pastoralist view of farming. Yoga instructor is more of a stretch than the others, requiring a bit of reasoning by analogy. But physical instructors (from dance to unarmed combat) of all sorts have certainly existed for a long time, though they would be more of a big town/small city phenomenon. That isn't to say that occupations that fit the bill for incomprehensibility couldn't be identified, but this set seems poorly chosen on KK's part.