David Hahn, Our Devolving Modern Lifestyles.

From Wendell Berry’s The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture

“Then onto the fields rolled machines that harvested as much in a day as could 80 men. Picking jobs vanished. Herbicides came on the market to kill weeds; they killed the chopping, too. Millions of rural refugees who, uprooted by mechanized farming often drift to big cities seeking jobs.” (Berry, 64)
As technology rapidly increases it gets rid of the need for millions of jobs, often the ones being long, difficult, and strenuous, and for this example it leaves millions of farmers unemployed. Yes technology is great and all, making my life and almost everyone else’s much easier, and it certainly does open many new job opportunities for people, but our new technological advances in farming is making farmland over farmed, making it practically useless for long periods of time, if not forever. Also, the farmers are forced to find different more modern jobs in cities, which would require them moving there, making that city even more jam-packed as it already most likely is. Furthermore, the farmers probably have only done farm work most of their lives, and many wouldn’t be very efficient at a more modern job. In conclusion, let farmers keep farming by hand (or help from some machinery); it opens up more job opportunities, ensures the farmers’ jobs instead of unemployment, and for me the food would seem much tastier and more protected from impurities.