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jrd5432 t1_iv5ja93 wrote

Reply to comment by MrMycroft in Tiny school's wheat crop harvest 'better than a cake sale', set to raise $50k by Real_Carl_Ramirez

Correction: these professions are the lifeblood of our entire society.

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CernelDS t1_iv5wr6t wrote

People forget because of industrialization but yeah.

And before industrialization? You needed 8 to 9 people working the fields for each person that didn't. It's why cities were so small.

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