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In reply to the discussion: Sitting in a restaurant today I realized how much trouble we are in for [View all]DaveJ
(5,023 posts)If there is not longer a job that existed 30 years ago, I suspect that job loading hoods did not exist 30 years prior to that either. The job market changes.
Is there any chance he could work for one of the millionaire farmers? I suspect they would pay for work that they deemed valuable.
It sucks, but we are still in a flawed Have/Havenot society, where the Havenots need to do hat the Haves want. This is not all that different from the rest of history. Most the greatest artists, for example, were commissioned by kings and queens and other financial sponsors, to create work that was not their own vision but the vision of their employers. There are opportunities for self employment, but then your employer becomes the masses. Either way, it's a matter of adjusting what you do to suit what the Haves deem important.