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Originally Posted by barry12345
You are right as usual Nate. Nobody wants to really work hard anymore. If they can find an alternative. Working harder or otherwise for almost nothing has no appeal either.
If a way could be found to equip smaller farms with the needed modern equipment without breaking them. They might start to come back.
When corporate interests harvest or plant their owned or leased fields here. Their are millions of dollars of equipment on the fields. I suspect over time they do not bother much with keeping the leased lands up. Then just move on. Vertical integration also removes distribution of money through society.
They should be heavily taxed but as huge corporations are not. Smaller farms mean a lot more employment as well overall.
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I didn't mind manual labor when I was a teenager and in my 20's. But, as I got older and my physical health declined, I was glad that I could make a good living by just tippy-typing and clicky-clicking. I had a severe back injury in my late-30's. After that, if I had to relay on manual labor to earn a living, I would have starved to death.
My neighbors had a one-man-operation yard guy. He was in his 40's, maybe his late 40's. He got sick, and that was the end of his livelihood.