[meepmorp]

If you expand the "What Agricultural Workers Do" section, it says:

> Agricultural workers maintain crops and tend livestock. They perform physical labor and operate machinery under the supervision of farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural managers.

According to https://www.bls.gov/ooh/management/farmers-ranchers-and-othe..., there are 952,000 jobs as "agricultural managers," which isn't how I'd naively expect things to be divided, but it does make sense.

I wonder how the remaining jobs are categorized.

[munk-a]

If agricultural workers are people working under the guidance of other folks then managers may also include the "self-managed" i.e. any independent farmers including those that rely heavily on automation. There's also probably a fair chance that subcontracting can mess this up with multiple farm hands hired onto a farm all counting as agricultural managers.

It feels like agricultural worker is actually quite narrowly defined to only be unskilled people specifically requiring oversight and management.

[MattGaiser]

With automation, they may not manage anybody anymore, just machinery.

[meepmorp]

Eventually, we'll need philosophers to sort it all out.

[mirkules]

Luckily, there is no shortage of philosophers, especially on the internet.