New Vedan wrote:How could anybody dismiss farms? Farm life definitely isnt for everyone, but there responsible for our food supply so there incredibly important.
The historical trend is towards automation. If city folk pay close attention, they will see their own fate in that of the farm worker.
Way back, that was a good paying job. Keeping slaves to do the work, was profitable, but not by so much (slaves needed managers, and troublesome slaves were a dead loss, even considering lynching saving money on ammo). Paid farm workers were still competitive with slaves elsewhere on plantations: wages paid were less significant that crops planted, region by region.
But the historical trend is towards automation, and less demand for skilled farm labor. As a city elite type, all the advice I can offer is move to the city. Stay honest, employers appreciate that. Pick the job you really want, get the training, always look out for opportunity (even the high end employers see honesty as employable) and follow your dreams. Farmers offer you lifelong employment, but they don't always deliver, because automation or termination of their business plan. The city offers every other kind of career.
The bottom line is: if half or more than half, of the kids you knew in high school, have moved to a city? Then move to a city. Being a big fish in a small pond means you have to eat smaller fish, who you went to school with. Move to the city. Moral anonymity for the win!