It’s really not as simple as that : modern farming techniques and automation made being a farmer mostly useless, as evidenced by higher crop yields and lower numbers of farmers. However it made farming equipment mechanics and engineers more useful; it made farming equipment sales managers more useful; it freed up labor to be allocated elsewhere (or in a free market sense, more incentive to do something other than farm made it profitable to do so).
When you have new farming equipment made, you now have to streamline production which incentivizes accountants, project managers, supplier quality, etc etc.
Even with little-to-no government intervention in the market, most of these “useless eaters” jobs still need to exist. Case in point is IATA: a commercial regulatory agency that came into existence because aviation companies wanted to harmonize practices of transporting materials internationally. These companies got together to develop their own regulations because local governments fucking sucked and know jack shit about transporting hazardous materials internationally without their expertise.
It’s really not as simple as that : modern farming techniques and automation made being a farmer mostly useless, as evidenced by higher crop yields and lower numbers of farmers. However it made farming equipment mechanics and engineers more useful; it made farming equipment sales managers more useful; it freed up labor to be allocated elsewhere (or in a free market sense, more incentive to do something other than farm made it profitable to do so).
But that is not what happening in reality. In reality farmers are obliged to buy seeds from "approved" sources, forced to pay for "vaccinations", forced by machinery manufacturers to vendor lock without having a right to repair and so on.
Mechanics are got rid because they can't repair vendor locked machinery, engineers can't apply their skills without tons of senseless regulations, even agronomists losing jobs, because there is nothing to manage on strictly controlled by government farm where some legislative papers dictate you what exactly you should sow and where and seeds manufacturers that force you to follow their guidelines to be allowed to buy seeds next year. You can't breed your own
varieties of plants anymore. Even fertilisers are strictly regulated. There is nothing to do for agronomist any more on a farm.
But at the same time, the army of law enforces and supervisors from government and corporate sector is growing with insane speed. Even lawyers are breeding in enormous amounts to help corporations to sue you for "unapproved" repair or keeping your own seeds.
Technology bring a lot to a farmers, and if we lived in some another world, things could be as you describe. But in our world, technology was hijacked by greedy elites obsessed with idea of total control over humanity. So, no, when farmer buy a new tractor, it is not a new regular service job for village mechanic, it is a village mechanic starvation, along with more money farmer have to spent on service and repairs, because new tractor could be repaired and serviced only on authorized corporation service station only with corporation spare parts and only as expensive modules. And farmer have to pay them full price for whole diesel high pressure fuel pump instead of a single valve piston or even just a small gasket.
That’s pretty tangential to my point: complex, non-agrarian based societies are going to have complex jobs that require abstraction. I’m aware of the governmental interference in agriculture, believe me. You can apply this to literally any industry at any time point.
complex, non-agrarian based societies are going to have complex jobs that require abstraction.
So, name such society and such job as an example. Society, obviously, must export tons of some very useful devices to other societies that will feed it in exchange, since it is a non-agrarian.
Systems Integration Specialist - literally every first-world and developing country employs them by the thousands.
Sales consultants in literally every country on earth.
No more hoop-jumping from me on this topic: your view of the modern labor force is incredibly off base, as much as you’re entitled to it. If you want complex shit like phones to post on this forum, you’re gonna have a lot of behind-the-scenes labor to ensure you have access to it.
It’s really not as simple as that : modern farming techniques and automation made being a farmer mostly useless, as evidenced by higher crop yields and lower numbers of farmers. However it made farming equipment mechanics and engineers more useful; it made farming equipment sales managers more useful; it freed up labor to be allocated elsewhere (or in a free market sense, more incentive to do something other than farm made it profitable to do so).
When you have new farming equipment made, you now have to streamline production which incentivizes accountants, project managers, supplier quality, etc etc.
Even with little-to-no government intervention in the market, most of these “useless eaters” jobs still need to exist. Case in point is IATA: a commercial regulatory agency that came into existence because aviation companies wanted to harmonize practices of transporting materials internationally. These companies got together to develop their own regulations because local governments fucking sucked and know jack shit about transporting hazardous materials internationally without their expertise.
But that is not what happening in reality. In reality farmers are obliged to buy seeds from "approved" sources, forced to pay for "vaccinations", forced by machinery manufacturers to vendor lock without having a right to repair and so on. Mechanics are got rid because they can't repair vendor locked machinery, engineers can't apply their skills without tons of senseless regulations, even agronomists losing jobs, because there is nothing to manage on strictly controlled by government farm where some legislative papers dictate you what exactly you should sow and where and seeds manufacturers that force you to follow their guidelines to be allowed to buy seeds next year. You can't breed your own varieties of plants anymore. Even fertilisers are strictly regulated. There is nothing to do for agronomist any more on a farm.
But at the same time, the army of law enforces and supervisors from government and corporate sector is growing with insane speed. Even lawyers are breeding in enormous amounts to help corporations to sue you for "unapproved" repair or keeping your own seeds.
Technology bring a lot to a farmers, and if we lived in some another world, things could be as you describe. But in our world, technology was hijacked by greedy elites obsessed with idea of total control over humanity. So, no, when farmer buy a new tractor, it is not a new regular service job for village mechanic, it is a village mechanic starvation, along with more money farmer have to spent on service and repairs, because new tractor could be repaired and serviced only on authorized corporation service station only with corporation spare parts and only as expensive modules. And farmer have to pay them full price for whole diesel high pressure fuel pump instead of a single valve piston or even just a small gasket.
That’s pretty tangential to my point: complex, non-agrarian based societies are going to have complex jobs that require abstraction. I’m aware of the governmental interference in agriculture, believe me. You can apply this to literally any industry at any time point.
So, name such society and such job as an example. Society, obviously, must export tons of some very useful devices to other societies that will feed it in exchange, since it is a non-agrarian.
Systems Integration Specialist - literally every first-world and developing country employs them by the thousands.
Sales consultants in literally every country on earth.
No more hoop-jumping from me on this topic: your view of the modern labor force is incredibly off base, as much as you’re entitled to it. If you want complex shit like phones to post on this forum, you’re gonna have a lot of behind-the-scenes labor to ensure you have access to it.