Jobs haven't been a motivator for the farm economy for a couple of centuries. In 200 years, we've gone from farms employing over 95% to farms employing less than 3% of the population. In the past 50 years alone, farming improvements have supported a global doubling of the population while simultaneously cutting food costs drastically for nearly everyone.

If ever there was a triumph of modern technology, it's been the past 200 years of farming.