Some of those are, "do it because you love it" jobs - teachers, counselors, nurses. Others are, "do it because you have no other options" jobs. Low-level cons

Some of those are, "do it because you love it" jobs - teachers, counselors, nurses. Others are, "do it because you have no other options" jobs. Low-level construction and farming falls into that. Keep in mind that, historically speaking, large-scale farming has been done by the lowest rung of society. Kids fleeing the farms to the city in search of wealth and opportunity is a tale as old as civilization. It feels wrong because it is wrong on some level - but the flip side, good wages for these workers makes food less affordable for people, causing another kind of suffering. However, the solution to the human suffering component of these jobs (automation) also destroys all competition except the top rungs of the industry. If this were an easy problem to solve, humans wouldn't have so many different philosophies on dealing with this.