[avar]

Men are also inferior to machines when it comes to farm work, but judging from your comment you'd presumably like to go back to the good old days when over 50% of the population worked on farms.

[richthegeek]

Or the really good old days when 97% worked in agriculture...

[usrusr]

Only in times of peace.

(To nitpick on myself, it could be argued that war campaigns were also mostly agricultural work: they were just harvesting other people's fields)

[wiz21c]

No. My problem is not automation/mechanization, I'm all for that. My point is that, if we mechanizes, who pays the bill for lost/relocated jobs ?

[paulddraper]

US agricultural jobs dropped from 70% to 20% in eighty years.

50% of careers gone within one lifetime. And the US did better then ever.