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"You could be a simple farm laborer and have a wife and kids and a place in society." You could not afford a good life as a farm laborer.
by tuna74 1y ago
"You could be a simple farm laborer and have a wife and kids and a place in society."
You could not afford a good life as a farm laborer.
- wyclif 1y agoI don't think the OP was suggesting it would be a good life if by "good" you mean a life of relative comfort. I think his claim was much more modest. The point is that at that time a farm laborer was valued by the local community.
- tuna74 1y agoFarm laborers were probably at the bottom of the social ladder for working rural people. They were usually fully dependent on the owner of the farm that they worked on. Think of the cowboys in the bunkhouse in "Yellowstone" except way worse.
- sarchertech 1y agoThat’s exactly right. Especially during the time my great grandparents were young—the Great Depression. A farm laborer certainly wasn’t a respected member of society. Many of them became hobos traveling from town to town looking for any work they could find.