h2 wrote:personally I blame the excesses on the sociopathic youth, where they were raised by tv, cable, and now 'smart' (sic) phones...
dohboi wrote:Yes, we are not talking about the same kinds of jobs. But since the at rev most people in most areas through most of the millennia were 'employed' on the land, and there can still be many 'jobs' available there.
Shaved Monkey wrote:Organopónicos
dohboi wrote: People have lived in the country with limited services for millennia. During the depression people were put to work on rural projects of various sorts all over the country. It's been done before, it can be done again.
ennui2 wrote:You really can't earn much of a living from farming.
MonteQuest wrote:ennui2 wrote:You really can't earn much of a living from farming.
I guess that's why there are so many millionaire farmers out here in farmland.
ennui2 wrote:MonteQuest wrote:I guess that's why there are so many millionaire farmers out here in farmland.
Yep, Mr. Cargill and Mr. Monsanto.
ennui2 wrote:BTW "farmers" have the lowest life expectancy of any profession, probably due to the exposure to pesticides.
MonteQuest wrote:There are no services in most of rural America anymore. All the small towns are ghost towns.
MonteQuest wrote:ennui2 wrote:MonteQuest wrote:I guess that's why there are so many millionaire farmers out here in farmland.
Yep, Mr. Cargill and Mr. Monsanto.
No, guys I went to high school with. Some are making 1 to 2 million a yr. Hogs, sheep, and cattle are mostly gone. Row crops of corn and soybeans are the main things grown. Most farmers in the areas where I am at are very well off. They pay cash for new cars and tractors. The drop in commodity prices is reeking havoc with crop projection this year, though.
Outcast_Searcher wrote:MonteQuest wrote:There are no services in most of rural America anymore. All the small towns are ghost towns.
Why put statements like that (with no citations) into the middle of an interesting conversation, where you are making some valid points?
Unless you are willing to define services, and demonstrate how NONE of them are provided in most of rural America, the first point clearly doesn't hold.
Shaved Monkey wrote: My wife worked for a stock broker for a while in a largeish rural town,farmers would come in in sweaty, dirty tattered clothes, and buy a $1mill of shares.
dohboi wrote:You re-populate the country, services will follow.
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