Farming GDP has grown 2-3x since the 1900s. It's just everything else has grown even more. That doesn't make farming somehow irrelevant work. There's just more

Farming GDP has grown 2-3x since the 1900s. It's just everything else has grown even more. That doesn't make farming somehow irrelevant work. There's just more stuff to do now. This seems pretty consistent with OPs point.